Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:05:47AM +1200, Jay Daley wrote:

> It is worth noting that the "consistent British or American" takes
> non-trivial RPC resources during RFC editing and if instead it were
> simply American spelling as the standard (I speak as someone who uses
> British spelling) then that would reduce the workload of the RPC,
> though it might require a policy change. 

Would the RPC really have less work to do?  How often is an I-D in mix
of English and US-English orthography?  Choosing just the latter could
be more work converting correctly written English to US-English.
Be careful what you optimise for...

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    Viktor.  🇺🇦 Слава Україні!
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