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The square bracketed searchable definition is unnecessary. The canonical form for a definition should be
<full term> (<abbreviated term>): <definition>
Where the <abbreviated term> is the searchable term and the one in use in the standard. The reason we have added the square bracket abbreviated term is because the full term sometimes has sub-abbreviations. But these sub-abbreviations are unnecessary -- they
do not contribute anything -- since only the abbreviations as they appear in the abbreviated term matter. It should also be noted that (theoretically) clause 3.1 is rolled up into the IEEE standards dictionary, thus making 802.11 definitions inconsistent with
those from other standards.
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Use the canonical form for all definitions. Do not sub-abbreviate terms; limit the use of abbreviations to the bracketed term. For example:
access point reachability (AP reachability): aggregate medium access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU):
aggregate medium access control protocol data unit subframe (A-MPDU subframe): aggregate medium access control service data unit (A-MSDU): ...
aggregate medium access control service data unit subframe (A-MSDU subframe):
antenna selection receiver (ASEL receiver): antenna selection transmitter (ASEL transmitter):
basic service set (BSS):
basic service set max idle period (BSS max idle period):
basic service set transition (BSS transition):
fast basic service set transition (fast BSS transition, FT):
multiple basic service set identifier capability (multiple BSSID capability):
multiple medium access control station management entity (MM-SME):
neighbor access point (neighbor AP):
non-quality-of-service station (non-QoS STA):
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