Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

python has absolutely no problem favouring and promoting whitespace, which is racist as.
whitespace is so important it gets to come first in the queue on the line. because it's white.

Since I use white text on a black screen, it is misnamed anyway! It's
blackspace for me!

We should call it blancspace obviously.

I also remember they had excellent coffee at IETF 95 Buenos Aires
at a place called Negro and it felt like a weird name to me until I
learned some more Spanish :P


Joking aside, Niels does bring a valid point, and it would be nice if we
got some guidelines for avoiding these existing known words, and prevent
us from creating new problematic ones.




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