Re: Last Call: <draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt> (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC

SM <sm@resistor.net> Wed, 09 May 2012 17:12 UTC

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Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 10:00:00 -0700
To: Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com>
From: SM <sm@resistor.net>
Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt> (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC
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Hi Yoav,
At 03:37 09-05-2012, Yoav Nir wrote:
>loads of fun without the "People" path). IANAL but this does sound like libel.

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01967.html

>More recently, but not related to IPR issues, during the last IETF 
>quite a few of our prominent members were calling for sanctions 
>(removal of posting privileges) after some of the IETF.Fact.Check posts.

Some identifiers are well-known in some communities.  There is a 
zero-based risk to identify such identifiers.  People tend to go 
after low-hanging fruits.  Why would the "prominent members" be any different?

Regards,
-sm