On 24/07/2020 09:06, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:12:12PM -0700,
Carrick Bartle <cbartle891=40icloud.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
a message of 33 lines which said:
I think we can all agree that slavery is bad, right? So why should
we even allude to it in technical documents?
It is bad for humans but, in RFCs, we are talking about network
entities, software. To take another example, we all agree that killing
humans is bad, yet we don't hesitate to kill a runaway program, for
instance. That's because human rights apply... to humans only, not to
processes.
Where will it end? I see the widespread use in technology of male and
female, as in plug and socket, which will be exclusionary to non-binary;
as is perhaps the use of 'binary' in technical documents.
This statement has a very narrow focus and one that seems to me, as a
European, to be US-centric, perhaps exlusionary to other countries. How
relevant is it to China or Brazil or ..?
I wish I was joking but I see this as the thin end of a wedge that will
disrupt the work of the IETF.
Tom Petch
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