draft-how-to-say-png-19981101.txt

It is proposed to replace the last sentence in Chapter 1,
Introduction, of the PNG specification to read:

    PNG is pronounced "ping", or "P N G" using the
    pronunciation of Roman letters in the local language.

Rationale:

    1.  Persons unfamiliar with the PNG specification are
likely to use the "P N G" pronunciation.

    2.  The word "ping" is difficult to pronounce in some
languages.  We wish to foster internationalization of PNG.

    3.  We wish to retain the "ping" pronunciation for

        a. backward compatibility with PNG-1.0

        b. economizing on the use of syllables (we are
           interested in compression).

        c. fun.

If this change is approved, MNG and JNG will follow suit.