Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

Marc Petit-Huguenin <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Aug 2026 09:27:56 -0700

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Even better: Lojban, a constructed language based on predicate logic that comes with a formal grammar (in BNF).

On 8/9/26 9:10 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> Sure, Corinne.  I suppose that makes a case for Esperanto on the
> grounds that it would probably discriminate equally against
> almost everyone in this community, is no one's first language,
> and is relatively easy to learn.  We could, of course, set
> considerations about a better Internet aside while people who
> wanted to contribute to the IETF learned it and should not worry
> about anyone who, rather than learn it, dropped out.  And, of
> course, anyone who thought reading and understanding RFCs (and
> any other IETF work) would need to learn it too... and would
> immediately do that rather than moving on.  
> 
> Did you have a better plan in mind?
> 
>    john
> 
> 
> --On Sunday, 09 August, 2026 09:23 +0200 Corinne Cath
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Would or would this not be the right moment to bring up the
>> imperialism of having to do RFCs in English to begin with? —
>> and now back to your regular Sunday programming :p
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 


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