Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

On 14-Aug-26 19:24, [email protected] wrote:
> Exactly, enforcing one spelling will lower the work 

I don't think so. I can't write fluently in American; there are numerous spelling issues, and many more subtle issues. The word "gotten" for example really doesn't exist in British except in the phrase "ill-gotten gains", and in British one must write "a couple of bytes" whereas apparently in American it's acceptable to write "a couple bytes". Bottom line: I would produce text more slowly if asked to write in American, and it would need copy-editing anyway.

> and will provide consistency in documents.
> 
> Anyone knows if this is also the case in other SDOs, may be IEEE, Broadband Forum, 3GPP, etc.?

I imagine that US-based organisations such as IEEE all use American.
"3GPP specifications are written in (British) English."
[https://www.3gpp.org/FTP/Information/presentations/Presentations_2023/2023-drafting_rules_workshop.pptx]

     Brian

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> Jordi
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>> El 14 ago 2026, a las 8:41, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> escribió:
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>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:05:47AM +1200, Jay Daley wrote:
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>>> 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...
>>
>> -- 
>>     Viktor.  🇺🇦 Слава Україні!
>>
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