Re: Please welcome the facilitators at ietf@ietf.org

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Sun, 13 November 2016 12:32 UTC

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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:23:20 -0800
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Hi Dave,
At 11:19 10-11-2016, Dave Crocker wrote:
>   *  There needs to be an institutional commitment to the exercise 
> of that role.  That's more than just naming some folk.  The 
> relatively easy part is that it means ensuring that facilitators 
> have the skillset and it means training others to appreciate that skillset.
>But 'training' is not enough, but there also needs to be the 
>application of leverage over those who contribute in a fashion that 
>works against the facilitation. Unfortunately, the IETF has a deep 
>and persistent unwillingness to apply such pressures.  So folk who 
>misbehave persistently do not, themselves, get trained to change 
>their behavior.  (Folk are likely to disagree with this assessment, 
>especially because of various, recent documents and discussion --as 
>well as the very rare interventions along the lines of "folk, we can 
>do better" spread amongst multiple contributors privately or an 
>entire list publicly, although such interventions have no training 
>effect, long term -- but the fact that people continue to feel 
>permission to attack others, on a regular basis, serves as a visible counter.)

Thanks for the feedback.

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I read the thread at 
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg99783.html  The 
person mentioned that he is new to this mailing list.  Did any of the 
messages on the thread have content which violated the rules of 
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Regards,
S. Moonesamy