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Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Thu, 20 September 2018 14:12 UTC

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From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, lloyd.wood=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.

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