[37353] in North American Network Operators' Group
foreign upstarts dare to use their own languages [was: Re: black hat .cn networks]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed May 9 16:35:31 2001
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:59:35 -0400
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: Scott Francis <scott@virtualis.com>,
Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>,
Ehud Gavron <gavron@Wetwork.NET>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010509155934.F30667@buddha.home.automagic.org>
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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:29:23AM -0700, Scott Francis wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:26:00AM +0800, Adrian Chadd exclaimed:
> > The internet has a bunch of technical standards which we loosely
> > agree to. There's no law stating "thou shalt speak English if connected
> > via BGP4 to thy internet".
>=20
> And are _any_ of those technical standards written in a language other th=
an
> English? Think about the acronyms we use in network-speak every day - how=
many
> of them stand for phrases in a language other than English?
Acronyms can be translated too. The termination point for my Bell Canada
ADSL service is labelled "ADSL/LNPA", for example.
I think what you meant to say was: "the English Acronyms I use when
speaking English only make sense in English!" :)
Joe
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