On 20 September 2018 at 15:22, <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I too am looking forward to thislist of problematic terms thatthe IETF should have blackballed.
Well, blackball will have to go for starters!
vertically challenged debugging information format (version 6)
gender-neutral documentation pages
Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxOn Friday, September 21, 2018, 00:12, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@dmarc.ietf.org 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.
