These terminology issues remind me of Conway's law which states that every organization given the task of producing a design will create a design that mirrors their organization structure.
I see that a great deal in IETF.
Surely a corollary is that the language used to describe the design also has impact? I am thinking here of studies that show that speakers of gendered languages react differently to physical objects depending on how they are gendered,
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:53 AM Lloyd W <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/global-whitelistinteresting that the terminology furore of the past few years and the subsequent NIST recommendations (here: suggesting use of allowlist/denylist) have not reached far into the IETF.
How is this list used?Lloyd WoodOn 25 Oct 2022, at 11:03, Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I just checked the IETF mailing lists I'm subscribed to and one of my subscriptions was called the Global Whitelist. Am I going to get in trouble for belonging to that list?
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