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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 24 July 2020 08:06 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:06:12 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Carrick Bartle <cbartle891=40icloud.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:12:12PM -0700,
 Carrick Bartle <cbartle891=40icloud.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote 
 a message of 33 lines which said:

> I think we can all agree that slavery is bad, right? So why should
> we even allude to it in technical documents?

It is bad for humans but, in RFCs, we are talking about network
entities, software. To take another example, we all agree that killing
humans is bad, yet we don't hesitate to kill a runaway program, for
instance. That's because human rights apply... to humans only, not to
processes.

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