I have no idea where one might find international experts on technical
language, if such people even exist.
We could ask the OED people if they can point us such experts. It is possible that some of the to University English departments could point us in the right direction.
Dictionaries are descriptive; they describe language as people use it and
what the words mean in current usage.
We're talking about prescriptive rules. I don't think our problem is that
we don't understand what "slave" means.
We can and should consult with the editors of the other major SDOs.
I suppose but I can't ever recall a time when we believed that the way
that the IEEE or W3C or ANSI or ITU wrote their documents was the way we
should write our documents. (If we're going down that path, we can ditch
our tools in favor of MS Word.)
This is a problem that the IETF really needs to solve itself.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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