Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

[Richard Barnes <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 11:14 AM Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>
wrote:

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> "Call them "professionally wounded" or "snowflakes" if you want, but the
> road this leads down is toward a  senescent, obsolescent, irrelevant IETF.
> People have better things to do with their time than engage with an
> organization that doesn't care about them."
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> I  don’t think it is the language we use in our documents or the language
> we use in our discussions that is the cause of the IETF becoming
> obsolescent or irrelevant. It is our inability to set aside  our technical
> religion and continually reexamine the fundamentals, together with  the
> imbalance in power and money between the service providers and the OTT
> providers which leads to lack of investment that has set us on that path.
>

This seems like the arguments that it's not CO2 that's causing climate
change, it's natural cycles or whatever.  Like, that may be true, but the
CO2 / toxicity certainly isn't *helping* the situation.

--Richard




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