Inline, Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:24 PM Subject: Resolution? #787 terminology - in particular "ISOC Standards Pillar" > In #787, Margaret raised a couple of terminology questions related to the > terms: > - IASA Accounts > - IETF accounts > - ISOC Standards pillar > In discussion, it seems clear that "IETF accounts" is a mistake, and should > be changed to "IASA accounts" wherever it occurs. > > "IASA accounts" should probably be changed to "IASA general ledger > accounts" - to have a recognizable term from bookkeeping instead of the > rather vague term "accounts". > general ledger is indeed a recognizable term from bookkeeping but it is not the one I would want to see. Accountancy (as taught to me) divides up the ledger into accounts, and yes, acccounts is also a recognizable term. The ledger is typically divided up into (traditionally physical separate books) - purchases/creditors ledger - sales/debtors ledger - general/impersonal ledger - private ledger so seeing only the general ledger gives me an incomplete, perhaps misleading view of the financial state of an organisation. In fact, I would want to see the private ledger first since it contains profit and loss, trading, drawings etc. More generally, I would want to see the IASA accounts (an accountancy technical term) in the ledger (another accountancy technical term). Or do these terms change meaning as they go west across the Atlantic? <snip> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf