[Chapter-delegates] [Isoc-ph-members] The Future Internet

[Louis Houle]

Tout à fait.

Even though, as I wrote before, major organizations like governments 
will indistinctly force the use of the capital letter. But languages 
need to breathe...

Louis Houle

Franck Martin a écrit :
> My understanding is you capitalize when you speak of "The Internet", 
> but you can keep it lower case when you talk about internet 
> technologies, or an internet application, ...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Baker" <fred at cisco.com>
> To: "Charity Gamboa" <charityg at diplomacy.edu>
> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org, "ISOC-PH Members" 
> <isoc-ph-members at isoc.ph>
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 12:38:16 PM GMT +12:00 New Zealand
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] [Isoc-ph-members]  The Future Internet
>
> Since "Internet" is a proper name, I capitalize it.
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Charity Gamboa wrote:
>
>     Wyn: /P.S.  trivium: the ITU insists on spelling "internet" with a
>     small "i",
>     as if to indicate that it's just one of its (assumed) functions like
>     "post", "telegraph" and "telephone".  Which is why i always make it a
>     point to spell Internet with a capital "I". :)/
>
>     I have to admit ignorance in this case with regards to the use of
>     the big "I" and small "i" in the word "I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T."  Although
>     I am aware that it is the IETF who is directly responsible for
>     Internet standards, should the IETF insist more on this than ITU?
>
>     If I confuse spelling the Internet with a small "i" and a big "I,"
>     does it make a whole lot of difference of my understanding of the
>     INTERNET? I have seen and read in the past how some people write
>     the word with either a small "I" or a big "I."  I thought it was
>     just some typo.  If people confuse themselves in the use of  the
>     big and small "I," maybe it's the same way people use "Xerox" to
>     pertain to a photocopying ("Let's xerox the notes."); or "Kleenex"
>     to pertain to "tissue;" or "Coke" to a cola or "band-aid"
>     pertaining to bandage. Perhaps we may be also "genericizing" the
>     words "Internet" and "internet."
>
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