I’m not getting my AS number tattooed on my wrist for a “little” i in Internet.
Lol.
-Ben
> On Dec 25, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 1:15 AM william manning
>> wrote:
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>> https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-189.pdf
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> I can't speak to the technical content, but this put a curdle in my morning
> coffee:
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> "... that comprise the internet [sic]" .
>
> Et tu, NIST?
>
> I will die on this "capital "I" in *the* Internet" hill. ;)
>
> (And no, I don't care what the AP Stylebook decided to pull out of thin air,
> with no understanding of how the Internet works or what it means; the
> argument that "there are many possible internets" is specious, because that's
> not what "the Internet" means; to the extent that various other "internets"
> get balkanized out of the Internet, to the extent that they interconnect,
> *that* will always and forever be "the Internet".)
>
> What's next - geology textbooks calling our single, unique planet "the earth"
> ? (Which brings to mind a great illustration of why "the Internet" matters:
> if, by some happenstance of etymology, we referred to our planet solely as
> "the Planet", then there could be many other planets, but only one Planet.)
>
> (And regardless of what you call it ... thanks to each of you for operating
> your piece of it!)
>
> Royce
