2003, the County of Los Angeles in California asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using "master" and "slave" terminology on products; the county made this request "based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County".[4][5] Following outcries about the request, the County of Los Angeles issued a statement saying that the decision was "nothing more than a request".[4] Following the controversy, Global Language Monitor found the term "master/slave" to be the most egregious example of political incorrectness in 2004, and named it the most politically incorrect term of that year; "This is but one more example of the insertion of politics into every facet of modern life, down to the level of the control processes of computer technology."[6]
"Main" and "secondary" has been proposed, enabling reusable interpretation of the remaining acronym labels for connecting. Another alternative for databases is "primary" and "replica", which is used in the documentation from IBM,[7] Microsoft,[8] Engine Yard,[9] Amazon Web Services/Amazon Relational Database Service,[10] and ACM[11] as well as in Python,[12] Django,[13][14] Drupal,[15] CouchDB,[16] Redis[17] and MediaWiki (several of which still uses "master").[18][19] Such issues are often met with aprehension because of the technical difficulty of changing a known identifier, and purely political motivation for doing so.
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"Main" and "secondary" has been proposed, enabling reusable interpretation of the remaining acronym labels for connecting. Another alternative for databases is "primary" and "replica", which is used in the documentation from IBM,[7] Microsoft,[8] Engine Yard,[9] Amazon Web Services/Amazon Relational Database Service,[10] and ACM[11] as well as in Python,[12] Django,[13][14] Drupal,[15] CouchDB,[16] Redis[17] and MediaWiki (several of which still uses "master").[18][19] Such issues are often met with aprehension because of the technical difficulty of changing a known identifier, and purely political motivation for doing so.
