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[Mod-discuss] Re: Moderator Team Procedures - For Community Input

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 23 October 2026 03:25 UTC

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Thanks for this. IMHO it's headed 100% in the right direction. Some minor points:

1. Please define astroturfing. I know it's in Wikipedia but it definitely isn't plain English. It's also intrinsically hard to identify with certainty.

2. Maybe "Messages containing _purportedly_ confidential information", because clearly it isn't confidential if posted to a public list.

3. Maybe define "timely" as "preferably within 8 hours, SHOULD be within 48 hours,..." ?

4. About Nick's comment that "advertising other conferences / mailing lists is considered disruptive", this can be nuanced - there are cases where _announcing_ an event or a discussion is directly relevant to an IETF discussion. On the other hand, RFC 9945 section 3.2 already covers generic spam.

5. Is it worth pointing readers to that section and to section 5.2 (emergency moderation on legal advice) as an FYI?

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter

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