[spring] Dispute process (Was: Resignation request)

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

On 10 Mar 2020, at 10:41, Nico Williams wrote:

> ...the process we have for
> dealing with complaints is heavily biased against plaintiffs -- which 
> is
> probably as it should be, as otherwise we might never get anything 
> done,
> but then legitimate complaints don't get heard.  I feel OP's
> frustration.

Nico, could you (or others) expand on this?

I really think this is worthy of a separate discussion: What is it about 
the current process that you find biased against those who bring up a 
dispute? (I take it we're talking about RFC 2026 section 6.5 
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026#section-6.5>.) Have you encountered 
a bias in undertaking such a dispute?

I have no doubt that this process is under-used (as a chair and an AD, I 
had to actively encourage people to use the dispute process instead of 
just giving up), but I've always assumed that it was just people not 
wanting to "rock the boat", or not wanting to be seen as a "complainer", 
or thought that nobody up the chain would take them seriously. Those are 
serious problems and we should be figuring out how to address them, 
since people bringing up failures is the only way we can stop bad things 
from happening when a WG or someone in leadership gets tunnel vision and 
does the wrong thing. However, this is the first time I've heard someone 
express that the process itself is stacked against someone with a 
dispute. If that's true, we should really talk about how to fix that.

pr
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