Hi Toerless,
At 10:13 AM 09-08-2020, Toerless Eckert wrote:
Who is "your" ? Anybody who learned (american ?) english before the age of 6 ?
Btw.: I disagree. Any choices beyond ubiquitously recognized reasonably
good american english is probably an IETF community choice, and not
one of a subset defined by upbringing.
Here are two sentences from a RFC:
"For example, a poor person in a Third World country might keep the money
in each mail message, regardless of whether it is spam".
"Assuming cheap labor in a poor country can be obtained for about
60 cents per hour, and assuming a Turing test of a 30-second duration,
this is about 0.50 cents per test and thus 0.50 cents per message to
send an IM spam."
The sentence is proper US English as it went through the publication
process. Anyone discussing those sentences at that point in time
would be rebuked. I took a look at the last-call mailing
list. There isn't much activity there except for the sponsored
reviews. I doubt that anyone would flag those sentences.
In reality, i think the policies and how to interpret them will simply be
made by a combination of IETF leadership the minority that is able to
most cohesively voice their opinion. Aka: the usual IETF min/max way:
minimum effort by the people with privilege vs. maximum effort by
others to overturn those decisions.
I see it a bit differently. Sometimes, an opinion which might look
convincing at first glance does not carry much weight if you (used in
general terms) look at the facts. The policies are usually based on
input from less than 1% of the "community". The breadth, in terms of
participation, is quite narrow.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
