ISO codes: stability and royalties (was: Ambiguity)

Mark Crispin mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU
Sat Nov 15 17:20:31 CET 2003


On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Misha Wolf wrote:
> I note with regret that, in the interest of the stability of URIs, we
> can't ask the IAB to correct the spelling of "correspondance" in:
>
> http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondance/2003-09-25-icann-cs-code.html

That word is a misspelling if it's "correspondence"; but if it's a
"corresponding dance" then it's a new jargon word that needs to be added
to the dictionary. :-)

There is evidence that the latter meaning is the correct one...

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