Re: [Eligibility-discuss] AD Sponsorship of draft-moonesamy-recall-rev

"Pete Resnick" <resnick@episteme.net> Mon, 27 May 2019 23:13 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
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Subject: Re: [Eligibility-discuss] AD Sponsorship of draft-moonesamy-recall-rev
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On 26 May 2019, at 14:32, John C Klensin wrote:

> ...unless one is prepared to argue that remote
> participants are somehow more inclined to frivolous petitions
> than those who attend regularly (no matter whether they actually
> participate actively or not), this is a case in which the huge
> number of frivolous recall efforts we have had in the past,
> especially those that have gone to the point of getting a recall
> committee formed (and even back when the number of people it
> took to initiate such an action was only one and with no
> qualification restrictions) strongly suggests that this is not a
> real fear.

To be fair, the concern was about someone making fake remote 
registrations in order for one or two folks to mount a recall. That 
said, I still don't think it is a serious concern.

pr

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