Service name capitalization in Nmap?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

In my upcoming Nmap book, I've been rather torn about how to
capitalize various service names.  On the one hand, acronyms such as
DNS, SMTP, and VoIP arguably look better when "properly" capitalized.
On the other hand, Nmap uses so many service names that the approach
leads to lots of capitalization all over the page.  In addition, they
are always lowercase in Nmap output (at least in the port table).  And
readers often get confused/annoyed when I use lowercase when quoting
Nmap directly, but then capitalize a term differently in the next
sentence.

I was thinking of using this as an excuse to keep them all lowercase
in the book.  But maybe I should just capitalize them in Nmap instead.
Which of these port tables do you like better?

[Current scan of scanme.nmap.org]
PORT    STATE  SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp  open   ssh     OpenSSH 4.3 (protocol 2.0)
25/tcp  closed smtp
53/tcp  open   domain  ISC BIND 9.3.4
70/tcp  closed gopher
80/tcp  open   http    Apache httpd 2.2.2 ((Fedora))
113/tcp closed auth

[scan of same, but capitalize acronyms]
PORT    STATE  SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp  open   SSH     OpenSSH 4.3 (protocol 2.0)
25/tcp  closed SMTP
53/tcp  open   domain  ISC BIND 9.3.4
70/tcp  closed gopher
80/tcp  open   HTTP    Apache httpd 2.2.2 ((Fedora))
113/tcp closed auth

Cheers,
-F




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