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re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Tue, 11 August 2020 16:16 UTC

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The corollary of the robustness principle ("Postel's law") when applied to
human-to-human communications such as emails, internet drafts and RFCs:

         Do not offend others

         do not be easily offended.

 

Where IETF has taken hundreds of emails on the subject

 W3C has one github issue 

https://github.com/w3c/idcg/issues/17 

(note citable references in 

https://github.com/w3c/idcg/issues/17#issuecomment-666552955 )

 

without any of the Sturm und Drang we see here

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