MIPI Cleans Out Offensive Terminology

MIPI BoD directed its working groups to replace the offensive terms in MIPI documents. While the primary examples were “master” and “slave,” the groups were also asked to identify any other problematic words, such as “blacklist” and ”whitelist” for example, and work to replace them till the end of 2022.

Although working groups can propose additional terms, the following replacements have been made available as options:

For master: active, central, controller, default, host, initiator, leader, main, manager, parent, primary, principal, requester, supervisor
For slave: auxiliary, child, client, completer, device, follower, peripheral, proxy, replica, responder, secondary, standby, subordinate, supporter, target, worker