John Noerenberg <jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> writes:
At 3:45 AM -0500 10/24/97, William H. Geiger III wrote:
The term "packet" is used by the Ascii Armor and well known to the
public. Should we exchange it?
The term "packet" is a well known and well defined in the PGP comunity. I
see no reason for changing this now. I see little chance of a PGP "packet"
and a network "packet" being confused for one or another as we are
describing document formats here not network protocols.
My feelings exactly. We've been talking about PGP "packets" since PGP 1.0
6+ years ago. The meaning and context are clear.
The term has existed for even longer than that, Phil wrote an IEEE Computer
article in 1986 which presented what eventually became the PGP format (with a
few changes), so it's been around for at least 11 years. You could even use
the article as a reference if necessary.
Peter.