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Re: [Terminology] WG Review: Effective Terminology in IETF Documents (term)

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 14 April 2021 00:44 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [Terminology] WG Review: Effective Terminology in IETF Documents (term)
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It appears that Keith Moore  <moore@network-heretics.com> said:
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>On 4/13/21 5:53 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
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>>> Language policing is not part of the RFC Editor's job.
>> That may be true today, but when we have a new regime for the RFC Series model it might change, or at least, this whole issue might become part of the style guide.
>
>The style guide seems like a reasonable place for such advice (not 
>policing) to be, and maintaining the style guide seems like the RFC 
>Editor's job.

Putting advice in the style guide is fine.  Telling authors you can't say X, you have to say Y, not so much.

R's,
John

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