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Re: trivial question: IPsec or IPSec?

To: "Wang, Cliff" <CWang@smartpipes.com>
Subject: Re: trivial question: IPsec or IPSec?
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 2001 17:11:15 -0400
Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
In-Reply-To: "Wang, Cliff"'s message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:01:51 -0000"
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I believe, according to the RFCs, the correct spelling is IPsec.
However, may word-processing applications will convert "IPsec" to
"Ipsec", so I bet many people write it as "IPSec" to get around
broken word processors (such as M$ Word).

-derek

"Wang, Cliff" <CWang@smartpipes.com> writes:

> I was asked by a tech writer on the term. I always thought IPsec is
> the correct spelling such as in RFC 2401, but I also found many people 
> uses the spelling IPSec. So now even I am confused. Apologize if
> this has been clarified before.  

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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