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RE: Boilerplate



Hi -

> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:55:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
> To: "MIBS (E-mail)" <mibs@ops.ietf.org>
> Subject: RE: Boilerplate
> In-Reply-To: <7D5D48D2CAA3D84C813F5B154F43B15502F2@nl0006exch001u.nl.lucent.com>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212121745080.8012-100000@shell4.bayarea.net>
...
> I agree with this.  I just put the proposed boilerplate into
> an update to the WIS MIB draft I am preparing, with a small
> fix to the title of 2570bis (an extraneous "the" was removed).
...

I hope that common sense prevails and we distiguish the
description of what it *is* from its *title*.  The former
should include the article required by English grammar; the
latter sounds right if spoken with [a] Boris Badinoff accent.

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