[rpd] Update old policy title for grammar/spelling ??

[Barrack Otieno]

I support the proposal to correct the title.

Thank you

Best Regards

On 8/21/17, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
> I support this!
>
> Also, "criteria" is the plural, "criterion" is the singular.
>
>                 -Bill
>
>
>> On Aug 21, 2017, at 06:42, Daniel Shaw <daniel at afrinic.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello AFRINIC policy community,
>>
>> There is currently a policy related document included in the AFRINIC web
>> site who's title is mis-spelled.
>>
>> Before getting this updated internally, we'd like to get the community's
>> input. Why? Because this is changing the known title of a public document,
>> which has been as it is for quite some time.
>>
>> Luckily, the URL will not need to change. Nor will any of the content of
>> the document itself. Only the title.
>>
>> The current URL to the document in question is:
>> http://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/current/255-afpub-2006-asn-001
>>
>> The title that we'd like to change is currently:
>>
>> "Policy to Change Criterias for ASN Assignments in AfriNIC Region"
>>
>> The problem is the word "Criterias" - the correct plural of "Criteria" is
>> also just "Criteria". Having an "s" suffix is not correct English.
>>
>> We feel that most important is to document the policy as per the original
>> author's proposal. But we have noted that the discussion of this policy
>> update in the list archives correctly uses "criteria" in the email subject
>> correctly.
>>
>> Reference: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2005/000007.html
>>
>> However, from the first time it was added to the AFRINIC web site, it's
>> been incorrect. This can be seen in the archive of the old site here:
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20060207224651/http://www.afrinic.net:80/docs/policies/drafts/afpol-chgasn200508.htm
>> And later also once ratified can be seen in a 2010 snapshot here:
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20100612153637/http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2006-ASN-001.htm
>>
>>
>> Summary: Is there any community objection to editing the page at currently
>> at http://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/current/255-afpub-2006-asn-001,
>> and all future publications of the document "AFPUB-2006-ASN-001", such
>> that the title changes *from* "Criterias" and changing *to* "Criteria".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel Shaw
>>
>>
>>
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