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Hi Jeff, and others, use of roman numerals is prevalent in Europe too. Some of us have even had brief skirmishes with Latin. Heard of ‘Elizabeth the second’ ? It’s written Elizabeth II….. I favour continued use of roman numerals for nomenclature, consistent with previous names for the AUI interface, because in my experience, consistency of naming helps the reader of standard documentation. I’m happy with pronouncing it ‘zivowie’ or ‘X’ ‘X’ ‘V’ –AUI , or 25 –AUI, none of which takes no longer to say than 25G-AUI. Personally I wouldn’t worry about it, a ‘received English’ pronunciation will emerge regardless of our hand wringing. But what’s written on the page should be consistent. For the record, I support the principle of holding a straw poll. I do not want to waste meeting time discussing this. Best wishes jonathan From: Jeffery Maki [mailto:jmaki@xxxxxxxxxxx] Hi, I think if some Italians were to speak up and say that they do not even prevalently know Roman numerals in Italy that we could conclude abundantly the need to drop the use of Roman numerals. I have the impression that only US students are taught Roman numerals. Jeff From: Eric Baden [mailto:ericb@xxxxxxxxxxxx] I agree we should break the convention. Roman numerals get very messy, and really long. 25G, or 1.6T will be much easier to manage. Eric From: Brad Booth [mailto:bbooth@xxxxxxxx] I agree with Mike; let's break convention. There is no requirement to use Roman numerals. Seriously, when I chose the acronym X-A-U-I and Shimon Muller coined it as zowie, we never had the idea that we'd end up propagating so many Roman numeral variants. What I believe we need to be wary of is how the interface is written and pronounced. The primary reason is to create a simple mapping of the text to the pronunciation for those where English (or American) is not their primary language and for those that are not actively involved in this effort. Thanks, On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Mike Dudek <mike.dudek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: And I’d been hoping that we would break the convention and would verbally use the “25-G-AUI” pronunciation for clarity of meaning, and include it in the document as 25G-AUI. Mike Dudek QLogic Corporation Director Signal Integrity 26650 Aliso Viejo Parkway Aliso Viejo CA 92656 949 389 6269 - office. From: Mark Nowell (mnowell) [mailto:mnowell@xxxxxxxxx] I shudder at the amount of meeting time we are likely to spend on this topic next week… Kent has a presentation for next week and has been gathering input over the last few months so we can hopefully make a decision after that. With regards to your proposal below, I can see the syllable-efficiency of what you are proposing but worried it has little meaning. I’d actually been assuming we’d be writing documentation with XXVAUI format for consistency but people would verbally use the “25-G-AUI” pronunciation for clarity of meaning. Mark On 1/7/15, 1:23 PM, "Dan Dove" <dan.dove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: All, Dan Dove |