[cap-talk] Petname Tool at W3C workshop

[Karp, Alan H]

Jed wrote:
> 
> One other minor point about the paper (perhaps it isn't in final 
> form?): I have always
> thought it a good idea to spell out technical abbreviations once in 
> such papers.
> The one that struck me was UI - User Interface.  Next might 
> be SSL - Secure
> Sockets Layer.  Maybe WWW and URL are enough in the language 
> these days
> that they don't need to be spelled out when first used in a 
> paper?  If there's a common
> style for such technical abbreviations these days I'd like to 
> hear about it.
> 
URL commonly appears in crossword puzzles, and I've seen WWW.  That
would indicate that these terms have reached a state of common usage.
Of course, anoa (It's a Celebese ox.  Now if I only knew what that is,
I'd be in business.) also appears in crossworld puzzles, so I may be off
base.

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