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

[Franck Martin]

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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