RE: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

John E Drake <jdrake@juniper.net> Thu, 20 September 2018 14:40 UTC

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From: John E Drake <jdrake@juniper.net>
To: "lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk" <lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk>, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>, IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
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Hi,

Isn’t ‘blackball’ a problematic term?

Yours Irrespectively,

John

From: ietf <ietf-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@dmarc.ietf.org
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 10:22 AM
To: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>; IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

I too am looking forward to this
list of problematic terms that
the IETF should have blackballed.


Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk<mailto:lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk>

On Friday, September 21, 2018, 00:12, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca<mailto:paul@nohats.ca>> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40yahoo.co.uk@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:


> python has absolutely no problem favouring and promoting whitespace, which is racist as.
> whitespace is so important it gets to come first in the queue on the line. because it's white.


Since I use white text on a black screen, it is misnamed anyway! It's
blackspace for me!

We should call it blancspace obviously.

I also remember they had excellent coffee at IETF 95 Buenos Aires
at a place called Negro and it felt like a weird name to me until I
learned some more Spanish :P


Joking aside, Niels does bring a valid point, and it would be nice if we
got some guidelines for avoiding these existing known words, and prevent
us from creating new problematic ones.