> On 1 Nov 2019, at 11:14, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via address-policy-wg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My point was also a general observation (not something against any specific
> participant, just taking advantage of this specific example, as a mention to
> "Spanish inquisition" and "routing police" could be interpreted in between
> lines as something different, even if not intended).
Jordi, your comment is a reasonable one. But it misses the point. In this case,
your common sense should have told you the earlier remark wasn't a literal
reference to the Spanish Inquisition.
The RIPE/tech community habitually uses references to a variety of idioms from
popular culture in films, TV, books and songs. Using catchphrases from Monty
Python, Star Wars, Star Trek, H2G2, etc. are very common. That's gone on for
decades. These phrases might well confuse non-native English speakers at first.
Or (say) an English speaker who haven't seen Star Wars. However people soon
pick up these references, just like we all learn the industry jargon -- route
flapping, prefix filtering, trust anchors, ROA, PI address space, etc -- that
probably doesn't translate well into other languages. That sort of
understanding becomes almost automatic for those who have been active in these
communities for a while.
To be honest Jordi, I'm surprised you said you were confused. Since you've been
coming to RIPE/IETF/ICANN meetings for longer than I can remember, this
couldn't possibly have been the first time you've come across a Monty Python
reference.
And if you were confused, you could have said so at the time and asked the
original poster to explain. I think that's a far better way to handle things.
It's certainly far more productive than starting this meta-discussion or
telling others how they should express themselves.
