RE: [huml-comment] PC-33 -Section 4.4.6-race

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

Maybe the greatest contribution that HML could make is the preservation or
even identification of context in material intended for interoperability and
enhancement of the fidelity of human communication?  Maybe that is a
framework that would take us beyond what we've already got.

-- Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 06:41
To: 'mbatsis@netsmart.gr'; cognite@zianet.com;
humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org; Rex Brooks
Subject: RE: [huml-comment] PC-33 -Section 4.4.6-race


I've been pointing to context usage for terms.
The terms exist, are in wide use, and  have
issues with the situatedness of their use varying
by individual, group, culture and so on.

[ ... ]

-----Original Message-----
From: m batsis [mailto:mbatsis@netsmart.gr]

[ ... ]

I also fail to see how the benefits of this term are enough to shadow
the negative elements described above.

Since this is supposed to be against misscommunication, we should be
exploring more objective models that actually help in isolating the
legacy terms one can abuse, at least when viable workarounds exist. I
haven't been convinced that race can justify it's position in the
primaries or  the possible loss in case of it's omission from the primaries.

I'm wondering about the opinion of lurkers in this and any issues around
the primaries, i mean "hello people, this is the public comment period"...

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