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From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Terminology deplored
Message-ID: <934@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 89 18:50:46 GMT
References: <8907181741.AA00283@zmb.isi.edu>
Reply-To: jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz)
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In article <8907181741.AA00283@zmb.isi.edu> braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
>Recently I have noticed the rise of the word "gate" as a contraction of
>"gateway", first in speech, then in messages, and recently in a draft
>RFC.  To my eye and ear, this usage seems precious and slovenly.  The
>English language is too marvelous a machine to deserve such
>maltreatment.

It also overloads with the operating system usage for access into a
higher authorisation protection domain.  This usually would be clear from
context, but no reason to possibly confuse things when "gateway" is 
already widely used and well understood.

Besides, as operating systems and communications become more integrated,
it is more likely that "gate" and "gateway" will have use in the same
document.





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