NYTimes.com: 'Master,' 'Slave' and the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing

[Glenn Hampson]

Of interest on two levels, this article describes the efforts of a global volunteer group (co-founded by Vint) that debates tech standards via listserv, and, like the debate we had here in OSI a few years back, is also trying to figure out how to replace the word “blacklist.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/technology/racist-computer-engineering-terms-ietf.html?smid=em-share