Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Thu, 20 September 2018 12:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
From: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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There is one word used a lot in the IETF that I find terribly offensive though.

IPv4.

Can we get rid of that?

O.


> On 20 Sep 2018, at 11:25, Niels ten Oever <lists@digitaldissidents.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On the hrpc-list [0] there has been an intense conversation which was
> spurred by the news that the Python community removed Master/Slave
> terminology from its programming language [1].
> 
> In the discussion that followed it was remarked that in RFCs terms like
> Master/Slave, blacklist/whitelist, man-in-middle, and other terminology
> that is offensive to some people and groups is quite common.
> 
> This is not a discussion that can be resolved in hrpc, but rather should
> be dealt with in the IETF community (because hrpc doesn't make policy
> for terminology in the IETF), which is why I am posting this here.
> 
> If people find the discussion worthwhile, we might also be just in time
> to request a BoF on this topic.
> 
> Looking forward to discuss.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Niels
> 
> 
> [0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/hrpc/
> [1]
> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x7akv/masterslave-terminology-was-removed-from-python-programming-language
> 
> 
> -- 
> Niels ten Oever
> Researcher and PhD Candidate
> Datactive Research Group
> University of Amsterdam
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