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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I return to my plea that we try to use commonly understood terms. <div>While of course, we all speak the languages we understand, even if they</div><div>are code for the specialization of our personal or professional daily lives.</div><div><br></div><div>We are seeking not to just hear views from all of us who work on a variety</div><div>of spaces, but to attract new participants to this space.</div><div><br></div><div>I am reminded of my first venture onto an early NOG list, where although I </div><div>had professional creds in my space, I had no creds to the 'real' guys/gals</div><div>who operated the networks. I was lucky to have a 'sage on the side' who </div><div>coaxed me onto the list, and coached me, and decoded for me. </div><div><br></div><div>While I might not have been much of a contributor in substance, I learned</div><div>so much from the discussions among these really smart and dedicated</div><div>practitioners of what in those days was both art and science, and skill.</div><div><br></div><div>but understanding the 'code' was a real barrier for me, initially.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought as we all write shorthand /and abbreviations... </div><div>NOT to say don't do it, just to say: hmmm, can 'my language' be </div><div>understood by as many as possible. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>> From: mueller@syr.edu<br>> To: GShatan@ReedSmith.com<br>> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:10:18 +0000<br>> CC: discuss@1net.org<br>> Subject: Re: [discuss] VGNIC-speak (was: rootservers)<br>> <br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> >For someone who is not interested in the "way servers [etc.] <br>> >call themselves," you are throwing around a lot of terms and <br>> >acronyms most (if not all) of which seem to be used only within <br>> >a narrow group and are not used (or no longer used) or <br>> >understood by many (and in some cases most) on this list, such as (but not limited to):<br>> <br>> We are all guilty of that. <br>> <br>> I'll see your VGNIC Catenet and raise you a GNSO CCWG (part of the IG ecosystem, or as Mike Roberts would put it, "IG governance"). <br>> <br>> But Philip Hallam Baker said it best in a recent post: "Use SSL with RSA2048+ and AES128/SHA256 to secure SUBMIT, IMAP and POP" Yeah! Right on, bro!<br>> <br>> You let that pass and went after the Francophones? <br>> <br>> How about bill's sig, "Neca eos omnes, Deus suos agnoscet"? Those are not acronyms... <br>> How's your Latin?<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> discuss mailing list<br>> discuss@1net.org<br>> http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></div></div> </div></body>
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