[abhinavk]

> (He calls LF "newline". OK, fine, his reasoning seems legit.) He is not advocating changing the language of the standard.

The Unicode standard does call it NL along with LF.

    000A  <control>
      = LINE FEED (LF)
      = new line (NL)
      = end of line (EOL)

Source: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf