Survey on the use of IP blacklists for threat mitigation

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, at 15:08, J. Hellenthal via NANOG wrote:
> blacklists are not always deny/block/disallow and conformed of things that allow you to take actions whatever your choosing upon their contents and your policies.
> 
> What’s next ? redlisting ? Don’t offend the Russians ... blue ? Don’t want to offend the police ...

How about - don't use colour at all, since it's just a culture-specific proxy for the actual meaning? "blacklist" and "whitelist" are challenging for ESL and for people from other cultures. Block list, allow list, filter list, etc. are all more precise terms that happen to be easier for everyone to understand.

Improving technical jargon is always worthwhile.

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Harald Koch
chk at pobox.com
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