Re: Harassment, abuse, accountability. and IETF mailing lists

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 03 June 2022 10:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: Harassment, abuse, accountability. and IETF mailing lists
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On 2022-06-03, at 09:19, Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> wrote:
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> They can always contact any AD, the IESG as a whole, or the IETF Chair.

(One problem with such a broad recommendation is that a newcomer will have no way to know who in the IETF organization colludes with whom.  We may think it is a job requirement for an AD to be able to act like an ombudsman, but how does the newcomer know that.)

Grüße, Carsten