[37362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: foreign upstarts dare to use their own languages [was: Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed May 9 18:42:18 2001
Date: 9 May 2001 14:37:48 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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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".
>
> And are _any_ of those technical standards written in a language other than
> 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?
CCITT, and of course the favorite ISO, International Organization for
Standardization.
