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Re: Big B, little b




Rich:

My 2 cents:

Let's us obtain liberation from the IBM style masters. Let's make IEEE 
Style conform to normal English

Little b should stand for bit.

Bruce

At 10:02 AM 11/21/00 -0800, Rich Taborek wrote:

>Jonathan,
>
>Let's not mix legal issues with style issues. What we have here is a
>style issue. I can add a direct patent reference into Clause 48 for good
>measure, However, it's already in Clause 36 so it's not required. We can
>call the trasnmission code Fred or %$#@ instead of 8b/10b if we choose.
>However, neither Fred nor %$#@ comply with the IEEE Style guide.
>
>Best Regards,
>Rich
>
>--
>
>Jonathan Thatcher wrote:
> >
> > Bizarre this discussion....
> >
> > Okay, so what legal rights does IBM have here and will they choose to
> > exercise them?
> >
> > jonathan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Brown [mailto:bbrown@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 6:21 AM
> > To: Booth Bradley
> > Cc: Shimon Muller; pat_thaler@xxxxxxxxxxx; bill_lane@xxxxxxxx;
> > pbottorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; david_cunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> > david_law@xxxxxxxxxxxx; edward_turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Grow Bob;
> > jonathan.thatcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > dkabal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; dkesling@xxxxxxxxxx;
> > larry.rubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; rhett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > rtaborek@xxxxxxxxxxx; shaddock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > tom_alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; wthirion@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Big B, little b
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > This is indeed the exact same 8B/10B using the exact same
> > encoding/decoding, disparity and data/control characters.
> > Just because we're putting a different protocol over the
> > top of this coding doesn't mean the coding isn't the same.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > "Booth, Bradley" wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay, it's my turn... I think that it should be 8b/10b.  Not only because
> > > "b" stands for bit, but because the 8b/10b used by used in 10G is
> > different
> > > than the 8B/10B used in 1G.  Although our 8b/10b references the 8B/10B
> > > encoding in clause 36, we do have some different codes, and we've done
> > > things to alleviate some EMI issues.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Brad
> >
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