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Re: [Gendispatch] WG Review: Effective Terminology in IETF Documents (term)

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 13 April 2021 21:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] WG Review: Effective Terminology in IETF Documents (term)
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On 14-Apr-21 08:01, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> said:
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>> I believe it is important for the IETF to say something that has the force of IETF consensus behind it.  Instructions to the RFC Editor have not, and I would
>> be against doing so in this case because the lack of consensus makes the editorial changes less well-justified.
>>
>> If the consensus is that we should not do this, I would be highly disappointed, but I would accept it as a consensus decision.
> 
> Language policing is not part of the RFC Editor's job.

That may be true today, but when we have a new regime for the RFC Series model it might change, or at least, this whole issue might become part of the style guide.

> If the IETF wants to set language standards, that is fine,

s/standards/guidelines/ 

> but it is up to the IETF itself to follow and if need be enforce those standards, not anyone else.

I hope you would apply that statement to all RFC streams, not just the IETF stream.

Regards
    Brian

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