Re: AUTH48 and "Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards"

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Benson,
At 01:00 AM 09-06-2025, Benson Muite wrote:
>direction.  A workshop/program
>driven by the IAB could bring in external stakeholders and a wider 
>diversity of viewpoints - particularly from
>people for whom English is not the primary language but either 
>participate in the IETF to a limited extent or
>would like to participate in the IETF more.  Some terms used in 
>English and considered inappropriate in
>English as used in the USA are used in other languages and do not 
>carry the same connotations.
>
>A draft that brings up the issue of translations:
>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-attoumani-ietf-inclusion/
>This also of course has cost implications, even organizations such 
>as the ITU and the UN have a limit to what
>they can support.

The better party to discuss an IAB workshop with would be IAB members 
as they have first-hand experience.  There is a contact address on 
the IAB web site.

If I am not mistaken, the draft which you mentioned above is being 
discussed in GENDISPATCH (it's an IETF working group).

I have not attended workshops, conferences, etc. where language is 
the main topic of discussion.  There are other topics which requires 
a lot of reading and that takes up my time.  As an example, I read 
RFC 5378 again over the past weekend.  I also read two or three other 
RFCs which are related to a protocol.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy