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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> Sun, 26 July 2020 21:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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A question I can’t resolve by Googling - has anyone attempted to create entirely new words to represent the concepts that master or slave have been used to represent?  e.g. a word that means "authoritative source of data that has no dependency on another source" and has no other meaning?

Jay

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