Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

Greg Skinner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Aug 15, 2026, at 9:50 AM, S Moonesamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Corinne,
> At 12:23 AM 09-08-2026, Corinne Cath 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? — andd now back to your regular Sunday programming :p
> 
> I would rewrite the question as: why are RFCs written in English?  The answer is that is how things have been done since the Network Working Group's effort were published as unpolished notes.  As a follow-up question, I would ask whether there is an audience for an RFC if it was written in a non-English language [1].
> 
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
> 
> 1. https://tex2e.github.io/rfc-translater/html/rfc10029.html

If I understand your last sentence correctly, there appears to be.  For example, abcdrfc.free.fr <http://abcdrfc.free.fr/> features English to French translations of some RFCs.

Regards, Greg
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