Re: [Txauth] Name criteria

+1. We should avoid things that we are aware are offensive somewhere. Our knowledge will not be universal, but having the “Federation Under Cryptographic Keys” protocol would be a bad call. :)

 — Justin

> On Apr 28, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> If someone in the working group finds it offensive, it is. Not very scientific but IMO good enough.
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> From: Txauth <txauth-bounces@ietf.org <mailto:txauth-bounces@ietf.org>> on behalf of Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com <mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com>>
> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 21:12
> To: Daniel Fett <fett@danielfett.de <mailto:fett@danielfett.de>>
> Cc: <txauth@ietf.org <mailto:txauth@ietf.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Txauth] Name criteria
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> But which languages are we checking? There are alot in the world. The phonetics of the name could be offensive -- ie it could be an offensive word when said in China or Japan. I don't know how to use google to search phonetics. 
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:01 AM Daniel Fett <fett@danielfett.de <mailto:fett@danielfett.de>> wrote:
>> Am 28.04.20 um 19:54 schrieb Dick Hardt:
>>> Daniel: I'm in favor of the intent of your suggestion -- but curious which languages we would test that in. Doing it for all languages is impractical. A negative connotation may also be a locale rather than language specific.. For example, a fag in the UK (a cigarette) is very different than a fag in the US/Canada (offensive term for a homosexual man).
>> If it is in the Urban Dictionary, it is probably a bad choice ;-)
>> No, seriously, I guess we can just google for "<x> definition", "<x> translation" and see what comes up. 
>> -Daniel
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