On Tue 30 Mar, 1999, James Lowe jlowe@iguard.com wrote:

mark wrote: (note spelling of Fibre - someone let an English chappy

...

into the protocol definition committee)

nope...french

I always stand ready to be corrected.

However, from http://www.fcloop.org/FC/FAQs/fcfaq1.htm

Q: Why does Fibre Channel spell fiber as fibre?

Fibre Channel was originally designed to support fiber optic cabling only. When copper support was added to its feature set some years ago, an ISO (International Standards Organization) task force decided not to rename the technology. The committee decided to change the spelling of Fiber, to the French spelling Fibre, to reduce the association as a fiber optics only medium, while maintaining the name recognition of the Fibre Channel technology.

I think the McGraw hill book says that it was the persuasion of an Englishman that lead to that choice being made.

This is so wonderfully nitpicky! If someone can provide the committee names we can be absolutely sure. 8)

: )

-- End of excerpt from James Lowe