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

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 10/4/22 09:16, Bless, Roland (TM) wrote:

> There have been repeated hints from various sides that the postings in 
> question (may) have been hurting the feelings of IETF participants (or 
> have been disturbing at least and clearly lacking respect for IETF 
> participants).

With respect, I disagree that this is a valid reason for censoring this 
individual.  I also disagree that his postings were malicious or clearly 
lacking respect for IETF participants. What's also clear is that this 
effort is a personal attack on Dan, and that many of Dan's 
supposedly-offending posts were his reactions to what he perceived as 
personal attacks on himself or on the community.   While everyone would 
do well to avoid resorting to ridicule out of anger at being attacked, 
that's an important part of the context that many people seem to be missing.

Essentially, your argument amounts to an argument that it's okay for the 
IETF leadership to attack individuals whose opinions they do not like, 
or that it's okay for IETF leadership to amplify individuals whose 
opinions are offensive to some, and for defensible reasons.

Keith