Please be relevant and professional [Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF]

Yet again people are sending messages to the list which deviate
from their claimed subject line and involve statements about
individuals which seem to have little relevance.

I request everybody to stop sending such messages, and to
stop replying to them since that only amplifies the disruptions.

    Brian Carpenter
    IETF Chair

>>XXX, your presumption of being above the law and able to act without any
>>regard or recognition of responsibility and obligation is exactly how
>>organizations get into legal trouble.
>>
>>The IETF is an activity of the ISOC. The ISOC is incorporated in the US, has a
>>corporate charter, bylaws, and various duties imposed on it.  It is subject to
>>US law, and it seems, Massachussets state law.  We'll see.
> 
> 
> Officially, this might be the case.  De facto, is is something much
> larger, with much greater girth on the globe.
> 
> 
>>[** BTW, YYY just recently sent me a nasty gram, 6 years later. For
>>those of you who don't know the story (most of you who aren't Nanog members),
>>YYY was fired from ZZZ in 1999 after Nanog members encouraged him to abuse
>>our relays.
> 
> 
> Sounds like corporate law enforcement to me.
> 
> 
>>This was at a time when Nanog members claimed that no laws applied
>>to the Internet.
> 
> 
> Was he persecuted for anything?

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