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