RE: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

[Tamir Melamed <tamirme at hotmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Christian Huitema wrote a message which included:

>using pseudonyms is a form of free speech

 

I am not familiar with the specifics of this case but in the internet world pseudonyms is very common.

I agree that in a standard setting body hiding identities isn't a good practice and I would recommend to that the WG chair or the IESG Area Director will have the authority to ask for the identity of a member. We don't have to invoke that but it could be an addition to RFC 3683.

Tamir Melamed

> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:47:39 +0100
> From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr
> To: huitema at windows.microsoft.com
> Subject: Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action
> CC: ietf at ietf.org
> 
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:45:19AM -0700,
> Christian Huitema <huitema at windows.microsoft.com> wrote 
> a message of 12 lines which said:
> 
> > Does the IETF have a policy regarding misrepresented identities?
> 
> I don't know but, in this case, the problem is not that he used a
> pseudonym (after all, noone here knows if my name is really Stéphane
> Bortzmeyer), the problem is that he used *two* identities, the second
> one being setup only to workaround a PR-action.
> 
> If a WG chair asks for five reviewers for an I-D, what will you think
> if they are all the same person under different identities? 
> 
> There is no written rule today, because, before He Who Must Not Be
> Named, noone was twisted enough to act that way.
> 
> > In the particular incident, it is assumed that the person using the
> > name of a famous French aviation pioneer is in fact someone else. On
> > the one hand, using pseudonyms is a form of free speech. 
> 
> Nothing to do with the use of pseudonyms. That's a red herring.
> 
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