> On Jul 28, 2020, at 9:00 AM, Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:35:45AM -0700, The IESG wrote: >> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-knodel-terminology/ > > I'm surprised not to find there anything like a survey of RFCs, current > I-Ds, and maybe even expired I-Ds, of problematic language. Or any > analysis of the prevalence of problematic language and trends in its > use. Did we use to have a problem that we now no longer have? Do we > still have a problem? Is it getting better or worse? > > Can we ask the author, and/or maybe the RPC, to perform such a survey? I checked and the list I have online shows both items found in RFCs and those not found in RFCs but potentially useful (including providing the regexp I used to find the term). I didn’t do a count for each example; it’s easy to find a single example but hard to verify a count against possible false positives. Joe
