On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:35AM -0500, Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 17 lines which said: > 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. [...] Can we ask the author, and/or maybe the RPC, to > perform such a survey? It would require a definition of "problematic language", something that the discussion proved next to impossible. (I enjoyed the long discussion about "folks", I learned a lot of things about the english language and about the english-speaking societies, I didn't know that this term was so polysemic). My favorite example is RFC 6350 which uses the example "Chief vCard Evangelist" since apparently chief is "Oppressive or Exclusionary Language" <https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-why-i-decided-to-take-the-word-chief-out-of-my-ceo-title-to-respect/>