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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:25:34 +1000
From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmailteam.com>
To: Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, at 16:07, Christian Huitema wrote:
> On 6/6/2021 10:58 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:

>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, at 08:35, Dean Willis wrote:
>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
On Jun 6, 2021, 3:56 PM, Larry Masinter < LMM@acm.org> wrote:

I disagree with your characterization of “kill them all” as “commonly used” or as a “term of art”. 
>>> 
>> What about "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"?
> I, for one, try to avoid metaphors involving war, murder or dead bodies.


I also do in technical discussions with mixed company, however I would use a joke like that in a private chat with my friends after a few drinks.

(and I use this example specifically because it's a common movie reference which I have heard multiple times in my professional life from a quite diverse set of people)

The big problem with current platforms is that flagging of something like that in a personal context can still lead to a platform-wide activity block.

Bron.

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