Re: [hrpc] [Tm-rid] Review of draft-drip-arch-02 w.r.t. RFC6973, RFC8280 and other

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2020-07-06, at 20:15, Amelia Andersdotter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> - In some European languages, there is no language-inherent ways to
> express the difference between safety and security, said the Scholar. In
> some Scandinavian languages, for instance, the closest translation of
> "safety" rather brings the mind to a state of personal comfort. It is
> easy to get lost in translation when operating in fields that rely a lot
> on the distinction.

Indeed.  E.g., in German, both are called “Sicherheit”.
In practice, we help ourselves by simply using the English terms when we need a more selective term.  If we are ever forced to actually speak German, we invent compound terms such as “Angriffssicherheit” (Security) and “Betriebssicherheit” (Safety).  The difference is presence or absence of the human mind to effect the degradation of freedom from dangers.  (Of course, the terms are not used as selectively in practice in English either, e.g., “social security” is mostly about safety.)

Grüße, Carsten