Lloyd Wood's IETF work - A Modest Proposal
draft-wood-term-modest-proposal.
draft-wood-term-modest-proposal-annotations.
- not-so-hilarious
-- The West's Wakeup Call on Digital Tech Standards, Emily Taylor, World Politics Review, 4 May 2021.
- ...while a third remained up
-- 'Master', 'slave' and the fight over offensive terms in computing, Kate Conger, New York Times, 13 April 2021.
- I did read both draft-wood documents: I thought them well-balanced, humourous, and speaking strongly in favour of careful choice of terminology.
-- Adrian Farrel, 2 April 2021.
- channels his inner union-branch-official to bring a wise, but modest, proposal on the use of acceptable terminology
-- Adrian Farrel, Independent stream RFC Editor, 1 April 2021.
- ...ongoing efforts to make the IETF more accessible to all interested participants are somehow overblown, not useful, or Orwellian in nature.
-- Lars Eggert, IETF Chair, 1 April 2021.
After these drafts were released as contributions to the intended TERM workgroup
on 1 April 2021, specific called-out terms were promptly removed from the revised TERM workgroup charter later that day. The chartering of the TERM workgroup was abandoned by 19 May.