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Jorge I agree with Geoff on this one and I will add one more reason why. I went back to my editor and showed her this email thread and asked her what the proper convention should be as the answer for this question. My wife who is graduate English major and was a Director running worldwide literacy programs says the word “over” or “of” are acting as prepositions tying nouns together and therefore they aren’t capitalized. So EPoC, would follow the proper grammatical convention. However if you want to be a rugged individualist… “may the EPOC be with you…..” Regards Tom From: Geoff Thompson [mailto:thompson@xxxxxxxx] Jorge- Thanks! From: Marek Hajduczenia [mailto:marek.hajduczenia@xxxxxx] Indeed, and a silly one on my side … still does not change the fact that this “of” is in lower-case J Marek From: Curtis Knittle [mailto:C.Knittle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Slight correction here, Marek, and a common mistake made when spelling out the acronym… The “o” in DPoE is for “of”, as in DOCSIS Provisioning *of* EPON. Curtis From: Marek Hajduczenia [mailto:marek.hajduczenia@xxxxxx] Jorge, I think “appropriate” in this context is a relative term. We, the SG members, ought to decide what the proper way of referencing the technology is. I recall in 802.3av, we spent half a day debating what to call PMDs and what EPON really is, how to designate symmetric and asymmetric options etc.. Someone might think it was a waste of time, but I think it clarified a lot and served a consensus building exercise and fostered better understanding among membership of that TF. In here, I would suggest to use “EPoC”. First, because of DPoE already defined by CableLabs, which incidentally also uses “over” in the name, and second, because this is the capitalization used in the CFI and the SG website (see http://www.ieee802.org/3/epoc/index.html). We should be consistent with that and not try to change the name unless there is a strong reason for it (e.g. would cause confusion with some other technology or brand name, which is not the case AFAIK). Hope that helps Regards Marek From: Salinger, Jorge [mailto:Jorge_Salinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Study Group members, I see the acronym EPOC (with capital O) used in the IEEE discussions. Within the Cable Industry I have seen the acronym EPoC (with lower case o) used in our discussions, maybe borrowing from the use of the acronym DPoE (DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON). Can someone with appropriate knowledge and understanding clarify whether EPOC or EPoC is right and why? Thanks! Jorge <="" p=""> <="" p=""> |