<div dir="ltr">First of all, I really appreciate Itoh's research on each name. <br><div><br></div><div><div>In my personal opinion, I don't see any significant problem using words in the list except those that have legal issue. <br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am realizing that keeping proper line between "significant concern" vs "negligible concern" would be very tricky, especially when it comes down to regional culture and history. However, I will do my best to help this process. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I do hope we select a release name which can be loved by everyone in the community, and honor all the contributors in Japan hosting Tokyo summit. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:16 PM Masanori Itoh <<a href="mailto:masanori.itoh@gmail.com" target="_blank">masanori.itoh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello community,<br>
<br>
| If anyone has concerns about any of these potential choices,<br>
| please raise them now.<br>
<br>
As one of common Japanese, I would like to express my personal opinion<br>
related to *the concern* raised recently.<br>
<br>
<br>
1. Names that remind particular companies<br>
<br>
I don't write concrete company names here, but the following names<br>
remind us (for Japanese, at least) very particular company names.<br>
This is because there are usually HQs or famous facilities of those companies.<br>
<br>
- Mita<br>
- Mitaka<br>
- Musashino<br>
- Meguro<br>
<br>
<br>
2. Trademarks / Exact (major) company name<br>
<br>
- Mizuho is one of the 3 mega-banks in Japan.<br>
<a href="http://www.mizuhobank.com/index.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.mizuhobank.com/index.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
3. Historical concerns<br>
<br>
The below is some information that could raise similar argument.<br>
<br>
- War ship names<br>
During the WW2, there were several war ships with names:<br>
- Musashi<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Musashi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Musashi</a><br>
- Mizuho<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_seaplane_carrier_Mizuho" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_seaplane_carrier_Mizuho</a><br>
<br>
- War related places<br>
- Mitaka<br>
In those days, there was a large aircraft factory that<br>
produced including Zero fighter.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero</a><br>
<br>
- Potential concern<br>
- Marunouchi<br>
'Marunouchi' has a close relationship with the Imperial Palace.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marunouchi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marunouchi</a><br>
<br>
<br>
In the above, although I did my best, I might have missed some more things.<br>
But, anyway, I have no choice other than stating the above publicly<br>
in order to prove that I didn't intentionally hide anything .<br>
<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Masanori<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Monty Taylor <<a href="mailto:mordred@inaugust.com" target="_blank">mordred@inaugust.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone!<br>
><br>
> In light of issues raised concerning the initially selected name for the<br>
> M release (Meiji), that name will not be used.<br>
><br>
> It turns out fully open community and fully inclusive collaboration is a<br>
> hard thing to get right. On the one hand, we do not want to exclude<br>
> anyone's input or contribution. On the other hand, we do not want the<br>
> result of that openness to result in effective exclusion or seeming<br>
> persecution of a minority group.<br>
><br>
> We tried very hard with this naming election to ensure that everyone was<br>
> able to participate in nominations, and that everyone was able to<br>
> participate in elections without the sense that someone had arbitrarily<br>
> limited anyone else's contribution unduly.<br>
><br>
> There are ways in which this was successful and ways in which is was<br>
> not. Clearly the cultural and historical connotations of this choice are<br>
> an area where the democratic process did not serve us, and I expect us<br>
> to circle back and do work to figure out how to do better in our next<br>
> iteration.<br>
><br>
> The foundation team is doing legal due diligence on the next set of<br>
> names in the list below (#4-6) and we expect to have an update within a<br>
> week. If anyone has concerns about any of these potential choices,<br>
> please raise them now.<br>
><br>
> 1. Mita (三田) (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)<br>
> 2. Minato (港) loses to Mita (三田) by 954–913<br>
> 3. Meiji (明治) loses to Mita (三田) by 1034–873, loses to Minato (港)<br>
> by 1052–879<br>
> 4. Mitaka (三鷹) loses to Mita (三田) by 1094–702, loses to Meiji (明<br>
> 治) by 1012–870<br>
> 5. Musashi (武蔵) loses to Mita (三田) by 1093–829, loses to Mitaka (三<br>
> 鷹) by 971–892<br>
> 6. Meguro (目黒) loses to Mita (三田) by 1137–690, loses to Musashi (武<br>
> 蔵) by 958–872<br>
> 7. Minami (みなみ) loses to Mita (三田) by 1183–621, loses to Meguro<br>
> (目黒) by 858–857<br>
> 8. Mejiro (目白) loses to Mita (三田) by 1294–485, loses to Minami (み<br>
> なみ) by 990–658<br>
> 9. Mizuho (瑞穂) loses to Mita (三田) by 1338–421, loses to Mejiro (目<br>
> 白) by 905–625<br>
> 10. Musashino (武蔵野) loses to Mita (三田) by 1472–305, loses to<br>
> Mizuho (瑞穂) by 1034–456<br>
> 11. Marunouchi (丸の内) loses to Mita (三田) by 1505–275, loses to<br>
> Musashino (武蔵野) by 931–481<br>
><br>
> Monty<br>
><br>
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