The term whitepaper originated with the British government and many point to the Churchill White Paper of 1922 as the earliest well-known example under this name.
Blacklist and whitelist are terms commonly used in computer science and cybersecurity to indicate something is allowed, or not allowed. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which defines the word as “a list of banned or excluded things of disreputable character,” its first known use dates back to 1624.
Racially loaded terms like Master-Slave, Whitelist-blacklist are now being replaced with primary-secondary, allowlist-denylist.
Is it time for the term Whitepaper to be replaced with something else? If so, what would you suggest?
Blacklist and whitelist are terms commonly used in computer science and cybersecurity to indicate something is allowed, or not allowed. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which defines the word as “a list of banned or excluded things of disreputable character,” its first known use dates back to 1624.
Racially loaded terms like Master-Slave, Whitelist-blacklist are now being replaced with primary-secondary, allowlist-denylist.
Is it time for the term Whitepaper to be replaced with something else? If so, what would you suggest?