Re: USA dominion: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 06:06:25PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
> In article <20200725211141.GK43465@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write:
> >Or have no opinions about what technical words would most likely be desirable
> >for network engineers in my country (RFC text terms matching other educational material
> >for example) ? Or whether avoiding specific words isin RFC would be seen as culturally
> >benefical in my country ?
> 
> I would be surprised if 5% of chapter members had ever read an RFC.
> They are predominantly Internet users, not Internet engineers. ISOC
> has chapters all over the world and many chapter members don't speak
> English.

Sure. 5% of chapter member input would be much more diversity than what we have now.
Also, this is more about asking about the desirable english langugage terms
even outside of RFCs. And i am sure there is a much larger amount will speak
english as a second language.

Are all ISOC pages available in spanish and chinese ? Just wondering as you
said many members do not speak english.. Ok. offtopic ;-)

Cheers
    Toerless

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