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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 28 July 2020 12:19 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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>    if literature, in general, is free to use black/dark with
    negative meaning, there is no reason to ban use of
    black/dark only for technical terms.

They're not the same.  Literature is often TRYING to evoke emotional responses and technical documents try to NOT do that. I mean, you don't want all RFC's to be written in Haiku format and its nature allusions.  (Although that is tempting at times.)

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