Section 7.12.1 nitpick

[randy@…]

Noted in the last paragraph of this section:

"Prefixes longer than 24 bits are commonly used by DSL- and cable-based Internet Service Providers (ISPs)"

There are other examples in the book that I've noticed where multiple names are linked to a hyphenated ending and these names don't have the trailing hyphen, such as the one in DSL-.

I was confused in the first reading because of this hyphen. I thought perhaps this was supposed to be a pause in the sentence, sort of like what an mdash or ndash would do, then after reading it a couple of times, I realized it is meant as the preface to based in DSL-based.

I suggest removing the hyphen and letting DSL stand alone.

[Matthew Burgess]

Well, I think this is common usage and was added during the review/edit cycle for the published book. Therefore I'm inclined to leave it as-is. I'll wait for other comments first though. If we were to remove the '-' it'd have to be reworded to "DSL-based and cable-based".

[manuel@…]

Is this one a WONTFIX or should we to reword it as "DSL-based and cable-based"?

[Matthew Burgess]

Randy's comment 1 says "There are other examples in the book that I've noticed where multiple names are linked to a hyphenated ending and these names don't have the trailing hyphen, such as the one in DSL-."

For the sake of consistency, let's just remove the hyphen at the end of 'DSL-' then. It's trivial enough for you to merge straight to testing too, Manuel!

[manuel@…]

Fixed on trunk (r6080) and testing (r6081)