Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:32:50 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 17:13 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:01:18AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > > On 7/9/20 4:43 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > For coherency, if "blacklist/whitelist" won't be used anymore, an > > > alternative to graylist should also be provided. > > What is "graylist"? Does it mean in between allow/deny? > > Yes. Typically it's used in situations where you don't want to deny > something but might for example want to do extra checks to verify > that things are OK.
greylisting was originally pioneered by email. It's where you initially reject an email but remember you did so and then let it through if the retries follow an RFC mandated pattern. The technical use spread from there since the technique (treating something as untrusted until it proves trust) is very useful. It has its origin in the English idiom "grey area" expressing doubt or lack of clarity.
The etymology of "grey area" is a grey area, but I'd bet it has to do with not having the clarity of black and white ... but is equally likely to be tied to Yin and Yang. Grey is also used in England to describe the lack of clarity given by mist or fog (he woke up and saw the world was very grey). I'd say we just leave it alone as too distantly related to any problematic uses.
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