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Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> Thu, 20 September 2018 18:57 UTC

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:57:21 +0000
From: Evan Hunt <each@isc.org>
To: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:17:06PM +0200, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> b) Changing language so no piece of computer/network hardware/software should
> feel offended is not necessary.
> c) Being culturally offended on behalf of a computer/network entity is 
> virtue signalling. 

If you believed that the intention of the change was to avoid hurting the
feelings of computers, as opposed to the people using those computers,
then let me gently suggest you may have missed the point.

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Evan Hunt -- each@isc.org
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

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