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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 24 July 2020 08:16 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:16:24 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Cc: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:34:18PM +1200,
 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> Since you ask, the answer seems obvious: its name is "Master Clock"
> so there's nothing else you can call it. "Master" on its own is here
> to stay, anyway; in some contexts the proposed alternatives (like
> "main") simply don't work. That's why most of the advice to authors
> cannot be binary; we can't resolve this just with a blocklist
> approach.

And this is also why it cannot be implemented in tools. Even the best
AI cannot know if the use of a word like master is oppressive or not.

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