Re: First usage question (are we wrong?)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

If you have requirements in a contract, it overrides all 
"widely-understood" practices.  

In the case of a *government* contract, that would also 
include things like common sense.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eva Whitley" <eva -dot- whitley -at- gmail -dot- com>

We provide technical reports to the Government as part of our contract.

I had been given to understand (in the five years I've been doing my
job) that widely-understood industry terms were not defined on first
mention (partly because our SMEs have a hard time remembering what a
lot of the initialisms stand for!).

Here's the terms our government contact says need to be spelled out:



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