Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

--On Saturday, 08 August, 2026 23:00 -0400 John Levine
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears that [email protected]
> <[email protected]> said:
>> May be will be better to take a decision about using British
>> or American spelling to make all our documents uniform (after
>> a decided date, if we reach consensus on that)?
> 
> The RFC Style Guide says:
> 
> 3.1.  Language
> 
>    The RFC publication language is English.  Spelling may be
> either    American or British, as long as an individual
> document is internally    consistent.  Where both American and
> British English spelling are    used within a document or
> cluster of documents, the text will be    modified to be
> consistent with American English spelling.
> 
> It's been like that for decades.  I see no reason to change it.

Agree completely and have said so in several different ways.
But Nick posted that he had been forced into American spelling.
Nick, were there inconsistencies in spelling conventions within
your draft?

  john