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Re: Response to various comments from Russ Housley



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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Chris Lonvick wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> > >   Replace 'insure' with 'ensure' throughtout the document.
> >
> > OK. Done.  But http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=ensure
> > claims that they are interchangable in most situations.
>
> Consistency with other IETF documents is good.

Agreed.

> RFC 2828 does not contain
> the word "insure".

It uses "ensure" once, but not as a defined term.

FWIW:

  11:38 mm110847-2k:~/www.ietf.org/rfc> grep -i insure * |wc  -l
      355
  11:38 mm110847-2k:~/www.ietf.org/rfc> grep -i ensure * | wc -l
     3175

Which means Russ was right by preponderance of usage.

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