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

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

Tom,

On 5 Oct 2022, at 9:55, tom petch wrote:

> On 03/10/2022 23:22, John C Klensin wrote:
>>
>> --On Tuesday, October 4, 2022 09:02 +1300 Brian E Carpenter
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> Keith, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whether or not it's warranted, it's clearly a personal attack
>>>> on Dan.
>>>
>>> No. It's directed very explicitly at a particular pattern of
>>> behaviour on some specific mailing lists. It doesn't say that
>>> he may no longer contribute, say, to Security Area activities.
>>
>> Brian, while I agree about the "pattern of behavior" my
>> understanding of the BCP, Marshall's intent at the time, and
>> what we have done since, Dan (or anyone else similarly
>> sanctioned) could participate on other mailing lists and in
>> other activities but only as long as the maintainers of those
>> lists felt his behavior was appropriate to their work and either
>> represented a change of behavior from the behaviors cited in the
>> PR-action proposal.   If they concluded they were seeing the
>> same patterns of disruption-causing behavior that caused the
>> PR-action for the IETF list and other lists, they could ban him
>> there too and do so without further warnings, etc.
>
> Indeed.
>
> When I read the first message of this thread, I thought that the person cited was a familiar name but from the IRTF (and from the Security Area, not from the mailing lists that are specified).  Since this is an IETF action, then I imagine that it would be up to the IRSG to decide whether or not action is warranted for IRTF lists.  I see no such sign - I do not know if the IRTF has any equivalent procedure.  Certainly in other matters, such as determining consensus, I see the IRTF as being more encompassing than the IETF.

The RG Chairs are responsible for moderating the research group lists, with support from the IRTF Chair.

This PR-Action is by the IESG and is to restrict posting to a specific set of IETF mailing lists.

Colin