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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Mon, 27 July 2020 01:32 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:32:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
To: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
Cc: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 6:15 PM Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> wrote:

> You seem to think that there are words that we must not use in RFCs
> anymore. So the burden is
> actually on you. Go ahead, convince me. I'll wait.
>

 I don't think this is a big deal. The specs that insist on using
controversial words are usually bad, anyway.

thanks,
Rob

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