Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: BCP 83 PR-Action Against Dan Harkins

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Sunday, 02 October, 2022 10:33 -0700 Eric Rescorla
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>...
> In particular, my experience is that it's far earlier to
> address misbehavior early on with smaller interventions than
> to wait until there is a long pattern of misbehavior and then
> ban
> someone. Nominally, we do have such mechanisms (SAA, etc.)
> but, they have proven so difficult to apply that the nominally
> last resort of the PR Action instead becomes in practice the
> only resort in practice.

Based on observations in recent months, I have somewhat more
confidence in the SAA mechanism than you do although I would
have agreed with you a couple of years ago,   As I said earlier
today, I'm concerned about their perceptions of what they can or
should do when the smaller and more private interventions (even
publicly suspending someone from a particular list for a short
time) fail, but a small bit of tuning would fix that.

Situations in which all of the discretion --about whether to act
and how-- is vested in a single WG chair or list maintainer
without obligations to consult, e.g., either a co-chair or AD,
may be another matter.   Without criticizing anyone, I tend to
not trust any one person's judgment (including my own) in
isolation or without consultation, especially if they perceive
themselves as being abused.

    john