Re: Follow up on disruptive person during IETF 119

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

Two important things to remember

1.  We intentionally use Meetecho in a mode that delegates permissions to Datatracker. This allows us to define who the chairs are, what eligibility people have for sessions etc.  

2.  We’ve operated in a particular way for quite some time and this is first real issue we’ve had. Extrapolating from this to regular disruption is taking things too far.

Jay

> On 22 Mar 2024, at 11:10, Richard Barnes <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> Thanks for taking action on this.  I'm surprised that this is such a complicated thing to implement, especially the part where a WG chair has to contact the secretariat.  That adds a bunch of slowness during an IETF meeting, and is clearly not workable for interim meetings.
> 
> Normal web conferencing platforms (Webex, Zoom, MS Teams, etc.) have tools for a meeting host to manage disruptive "Zoom bombing" participants.  Does MeetEcho not have such tools?
> 
> --RLB
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:04 PM Jay Daley <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> IESG / WG Chairs
>> 
>> The background here is that we had one individual disrupt a number of sessions, including the plenary, and we were required to first temporarily ban them and then permanently ban them.  
>> 
>> The meetings team (LLC, Secretariat, NOC, Meetecho, Tools) have discussed this and we propose the following way forward to manage similar instances in the future.
>> 
>> 1.  Maintain a trust-based approach with an exception process, rather than introduce new controls to lock/unlock a whole session.  We think approach both maintains the permissive culture of the IETF and avoids extra complexity for WG Chairs.
>> 
>> 2.  Add a new feature in Datatracker that allows the Secretariat to remove a participant from a session and more permanently.  The technical details here are that this feature will revoke their registration permissions and call a Meetecho API to remove them. 
>> 
>> 3.  For single session removal this new process can be invoked by a WG chair (of the session) or an AD, contacting the Secretariat.  Permanent removal can only be authorised by me or Roman, normally after rapid consultation with the IESG.
>> 
>> Does this work for everyone?
>> 
>> Jay
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jay Daley
>> IETF Executive Director
>> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>> 

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
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