Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Fri, 24 July 2020 03:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
From: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:45:12 -0700
Cc: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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> On Jul 23, 2020, at 7:34 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Master" on its own is here to stay, anyway; in some contexts the proposed alternatives (like "main") simply don't work.

I have no idea why you could claim one works and the other does not.  

Master of what?

There may be better alternatives, such as canonical. But “master” isn’t a unicorn word. 

Joe