Specification Style Guide

Capitalization/Non-Capitalization - Proper Nouns are Capitalized

a term that is intended to be generic should be lowercase in the glossary and in the specs and other documents that use that term. A term should only be uppercase if it is a proper noun. The only exception is an acronym. For example, the following terms are all generic nouns:

• wallet

• agent

• public key

• key event log

The following terms are proper nouns or acronyms:

• ToIP

• W3C

• DIF

• X.509

• Diffie-Hellman

• KEL