OT: syntax question- is it a Kerberized service or a kerberized service?
Andrew Hecox
ahecox at uchicago.edu
Wed Jan 29 17:43:09 EST 2003
I'm updating some documentation on our web pages and would generally like to standardize the usage with the "proper" syntax.
Most places usually just use:
Kerberized service (for a general service) and
Kerberized Service (for a specific service).
MIT's help pages seem to use the format of
kerberized service (for a general service) and
Kerberized Service (for a specfic service)
In normal English usage, a proper-name transformed into a adjective would usually have this form:
kerberized service (for a general service) and
kerberized Service (for a specific service)
One place where the distinction seems to be is whether or not the authoring parties are looking at Kerberos as a piece of
software or as a technology. As a piece of software, the big K makes sense, in regards to Kerberos the technology, however, it
wouldn't appear to fit. All of our documentation is refering to the technology, as in your can use K/kerberized applications or
you can use SSL-based options. Opinions, thoughts, rambles?
Thanks!
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