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Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Thu, 20 September 2018 21:40 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:39:58 -0400
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Cc: Evan Hunt <each@isc.org>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, ietf@ietf.org
To: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
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On Sep 20, 2018, at 4:11 PM, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> Do i qualify to demand a rename of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tree <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tree>
> if i have an appropriate BMI and feel offended or do i have to work in
> a Data Center ?

Toerless, let me put it to you this way: are you having a problem at work that is sufficient that you feel that you would like to report it to your human resources/personnel department as harassment, but you don't feel safe in doing so?   If so, and if what you are experiencing is being enabled by some terminology used in the IETF, then what you are saying would apply.   Otherwise you are just wasting our time asking this question.   This is not a Kaffee Klatsch, and we are not talking about this for fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment>

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