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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Sun, 26 July 2020 22:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
From: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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> On Jul 26, 2020, at 3:04 PM, Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> wrote:
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>> On 27/07/2020, at 9:49 AM, Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com <mailto:touch@strayalpha.com>> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org <mailto:jay@ietf.org>> wrote:
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>>> A question I can’t resolve by Googling - has anyone attempted to create entirely new words to represent the concepts that master or slave have been used to represent?  e.g. a word that means "authoritative source of data that has no dependency on another source" and has no other meaning?
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>> Why aren’t either primary or authoritative vs. copy/secondary/replica sufficient?
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> I don’t have an opinion on whether they are or not.  I was just interested in whether anyone is rethinking this from a different perspective.

Oh, I don’t know if new terms have been coined for this issue.

However, in many cases these might not have been the best terms in the first place vs. other existing terms.

Joe

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