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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Tim Chown <tjc.ietf@gmail.com> Sat, 25 July 2020 09:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
From: Tim Chown <tjc.ietf@gmail.com>
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> On 23 Jul 2020, at 18:45, Eliot Lear <lear=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I support this draft being adopted as a starting point, but I would like to see some substantial changes.  I have said this in other contexts, and I will say it here: what is needed is not a dictate on specific words, but rather a well-understood framework by which we decide these sorts of things.  I suggest that we do what we can to attract appropriate expertise into a working group to participate.

+1 to working on this topic, it’s long overdue, and not just about the US, or slavery.

+1 to the above, though I suspect some words will be “on a list” regardless.

Tim

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