Preferences vary.  I like the idea of a jargon series RFCs.

Steve

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> On Feb 13, 2025, at 5:39 PM, Edward Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 13, 2025, at 12:00, Steve Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> If necessary, an Informational RFC explaining the history of the term could 
>> be written.  For those who are writing standards track RFCs in the future 
>> and feel it is necessary to acknowledge the term "white lie" they can then 
>> refer to the Informational RFC.  Readers focused on what they need to know 
>> in order to understand how negative spans work can ignore the distraction.
> 
> Preserving the history of the term is a good idea, or any term whose meaning 
> comes with a story.  Instead of a standalone document, could it be a section 
> in another, like compact-denial-of-existence?  If we had a separate document 
> for every piece of jargon we’ve misused, we’d have, well, a lot more RFCs. ;)
> 
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