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The term "MIB" is not proprietary (i.e., it's standard industry term).
The content of (most) MIBs is proprietary.
At 12:36 PM 1/7/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>MIB stands for Management Information Base.
>
>I am not sure if it is a standard term, it might be proprietary. IMO the
>system name itself (i.e. system name: System) would be capitalised, but the
>term system name itself within the sentence should not be. So I need some
>thoughts on this. :)
>
>Marianne
>
>
>> Depends...what's a MIB? (I'm sure it's some standard technology
>> term...I'm
>> just not feeling too standard today)
>>
>>
>>
>> Marianne Bowen wrote:
>>
>> > Would you capitalise "system name" in the following sentence:
>> >
>> > "The user can now select IP address, IP hostname, or MIB system name to
>> be
>> > displayed."
>> >
>> > Marianne Bowen
>> > Technical Writer
>> > IMCI Technologies (tm)
>> >
>>
>
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