Re: [Team] Re: Follow up on disruptive person during IETF 119

[Richard Barnes <[e-mail]>]

OK, so why isn't the answer just "Let the chairs turn the disruptive person
off"?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:14 PM Alessandro Amirante <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Il 22/03/24 02:10, Richard Barnes ha scritto:
> > 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?
>
> Yes, obviously Meetecho does have such tools as well.
>
> AA
>
> > --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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