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Re: The death John McCarthy

2011-10-27 20:15:33


--On Thursday, October 27, 2011 19:56 -0400 Hector
<sant9442(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

...
People should be aware of the such obvious conflict in
acronyms, at least do a quick research for existence names. I
guess its a "younger" generation issue.

Not a generational issue but a deliberate effort to be cute.
The problem was pointed out to them when the WG was first
proposed.  They were aware of the programming language and just
very impressed with themselves for coming up with the acronym.

Some day, the IETF will grow up.  But I'm not holding my breath
:-(

   john



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