Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

> I would prefer if the word kibibyte was not used in policy, so I would
> strike '(in other words, the size in kibibytes)'.

I don't much like the word either, but at this point it's an IEEE and
ISO standard (IEEE 1541-2002).  My feeling is that standards are more
important than aesthetics and we should generally follow established
standards in areas like this unless there's some compelling reason not
to.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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