[ih] ARPANET vs ARPAnet

[Allan Blue]

I believe parents still have the right to name their baby. We called
ours ARPANET. This was the preferred spelling from its inception
in 1967 until I left IPTO ten years later. I think most would agree
that it was, after all, a very capital idea.

Al Blue

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>   1. ARPANET vs ARPAnet? (Bob Braden)
>   2. Re: ARPANET vs ARPAnet? (Bob Braden)
>   3. Re: ARPANET vs ARPAnet? (Bob Braden)
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> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:33:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bob Braden <braden at ISI.EDU>
> Subject: [ih] ARPANET vs ARPAnet?
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> The RFC Editor needs to make an editorial decision on capitalization of
> "arpanet".  This is such an important historical name that we felt a
> need to think a bit about it.
> 
> Here is my memory: we originally called it "ARPANET", but over the
> years there has been a tendency to morph the name to "ARPAnet".  The
> same thing happened to "NSFNET", which morphed into "NSFnet".
> 
> Any opinions? Preferences?
> 
> Hey, it's more interesting to me than the administrative hassles on
> ietf.org! ;-)
> 
> Bob Braden
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