Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

[Loa Andersson <[e-mail]>]

Niels,

You could make anything work, but it would probably cause a lot
of pain and confusion.

In a master/slave situation the master tells the salve what to do,
and there is no way to discuss it. leader/follower does not bring the
same type of understanding over, I've worked for a lot of good leaders
(and some bad ones :) ), but part of what a good leader do, is to be
prepared to take the discussion e.g. when the follower don't want to
follow.

I'd say if we had a master/slave situation among humans it would be a
bad thing, if we have it among networking nodes, I don't particularly
care about the terminology.

/Loa

On 2018-09-20 19:41, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> On 09/20/2018 01:25 PM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
>> The term master/slave is used when it is technically required that the instruction is executed without equivocation.
> 
> Would leader/follower (as implemented by Django) not work just as well?
> It seems to work for them for quite a while already.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Niels
> 

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