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Re: Some more thoughts about language and what to do next

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 31 July 2020 16:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Some more thoughts about language and what to do next
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> On 31 Jul 2020, at 18:43, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> 
> This presumes the existence of objectively qualified experts[1].  Will
> we know one when we see one?  Who decides which experts are qualified?
> I don't think ducking the responsibility to make the choices can work.
> Ultimately, the IETF community are the experts in how we use our
> terminology.


I may or may not know what an expert in this space looks like, but I can tell you what one doesn’t look like.  And so I guess I would fundamentally disagree with you that we are the experts.  However, we would be the customers of the expert advice, and we get to decide either individually or collectively to use it.

Eliot

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