Hi - As co-chair... It is suspected that someone whose posting privileges to the ltru at ietf.org mailing list were revoked pursuant to an RFC 3683 PR-action has been posting to the WG mailing list under one or more pseudonyms. While RFC 3683 recognizes the possibility of such misbehavior, it does not prescribe a means of determining when such a situation exists. As suggested by our area director, we propose the following metric: 1. All chairs and the responsible area director agree that the identified email address is the person subject to a PR action. 2. At least one independent participant of the list is informed that a suspected violation of a PR action is in progress without being informed of the suspect posting address or addresses. That participant must independently identify the same posting address or addresses as the WG chairs & AD. The list should be informed when the metric is applied. Of course, this action would be subject to the usual appeal process. We'd like to get a read on whether the working group feels this would be adequate. I understand "independent participants" in our context as list subscribers (other than the chairs, ADs, and editors) who give some indication (such as recent postings) that would indicate that they are actually reading the list. Martin and I think consulting three such participants should provide an adequate degree of confidence that the corrent address(es) have been identified, since that would mean that a total of six people have all come to the same conclusion about what postings were in question and who the poster might be. Please respond to the ltru at ietf.org list indicating whether you find this to be an acceptiable approach. Randy _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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