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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Sun, 26 July 2020 20:53 UTC

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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:53:48 +0200
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, "<ietf@ietf.org>" <ietf@ietf.org>, IETF Announcement List <ietf-announce@ietf.org>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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Words that where already used in RFCs would IMHO might get higher priority.

balkanization: 4 times, third world (not countries): 3 times.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:30:18AM -0700, Joseph Touch wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jul 25, 2020, at 11:33 PM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Since we are at it, may I ask that the following terms be added to the "discussion":
> > * balkanization
> > * third-world countries
> > ?
> 
> Yes - thanks. That does help. Other examples are welcome - at least to me directly off-list if not on-list.
> 
> Examples with suggested alternatives are helpful too.
> 
> Joe
> 

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