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A comment on RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slave to Leader/Follower. Parent comment

Re:RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slav... by RobotToaster on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:17AM (#37198075)
> If this terminology was more explicitly sexually tinted instead, the American right would have no problem with changing it “to protect the children.”

If that was true wouldn't they have objected to male, female, and hermaphrodite connectors?

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Re:RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slav... by pavlov on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:34AM (#37198160)
If some tech company introduced a product today that used words like “hermaphrodite” and “trans” to describe anything, it would soon be featured on Fox News as evidence of subversive leftist corruption.
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Re:RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slav... by lostmsu on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:43AM (#37200213)
Still sounds much better than back history changes.
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