[Last-Call] Conway's Law, Was: Global whitelist was Re: Last Call: BCP 83 PR-Action Against

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

These terminology issues remind me of Conway's law which states that every
organization given the task of producing a design will create a design that
mirrors their organization structure.
I see that a great deal in IETF.

Surely a corollary is that the language used to describe the design also
has impact? I am thinking here of studies that show that speakers of
gendered languages react differently to physical objects depending on how
they are gendered,





On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:53 AM Lloyd W <lloyd.wood=
[e-mail]> wrote:

> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/global-whitelist
>
> interesting that the terminology furore of the past few years and the
> subsequent NIST recommendations (here: suggesting use of
> allowlist/denylist) have not reached far into the IETF.
>
> How is this list used?
>
> Lloyd Wood
> [e-mail]
>
> On 25 Oct 2022, at 11:03, Timothy Mcsweeney <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I just checked the IETF mailing lists I'm subscribed to and one of my
> subscriptions was called the Global Whitelist.  Am I going to get in
> trouble for belonging to that list?
>
>