[governance] Consensus call on rights theme - yes or no

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:29:40PM -0700, David Goldstein (goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au) wrote:

> From what I can tell, using the definition given for capitalising
> "internet" means, if one were to carry this definition across to
> other areas, it should, for example, never be "road" when referring
> to a "road network". After all, a road network is a series of or
> network of "roads".

If there were a single entity of Earth's roads that needed a name, it
probably were capitalized. I like capitalizing Internet for the same
reason I capitalize Earth or Moon: it is the name of a single entity,
a proper noun. Compare: "tilling the earth", "Io is a moon of Jupiter".
Different meaning, different capitalization.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen
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