The IESG has received an appeal from Todd Glassey (see http://www.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/glassey-appeal-2008-07-28.txt) on his suspension from posting to the IPR Working Group (WG) mailing list on July 26. The IESG has reviewed the IPR WG mailing list traffic (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipr-wg/current/maillist.html ) for July 4 to July 26 and is upholding the decision of the WG Chair, Harald Alvestrand, to suspend Todd Glassey's posting privileges under the discretion given in RFC3934. Claim A of the appeal is rejected. Continued posting on a topic that has been declared off-topic for the WG is sufficient cause for suspension of posting rights. The WG chair judged that the postings were disruptive, whether or not they were on one thread or multiple threads or in reply to other postings. The IESG believes that Harald Alvestrand's interpretation of what is off-topic and disruptive for this WG is a reasonable one. Claim 2 of the appeal is rejected. The IESG does not feel that the suspension of posting rights came as a surprise. Todd Glassey has been repeatedly warned about off-topic postings, and has been suspended from the same list before for off-topic postings (see also the IESG response to a similar previous appeal from Todd Glassey: h t t p : / / w w w.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/iesg-appeal-response-todd-glassey-11-26-2007.txt). Claim 3 of the appeal is rejected. Todd Glassey made statements which he interprets as fact but which readers interpreted as threats of litigation. Those kinds of statements can be disruptive, which is the focus of the discretion given to WG Chairs in RFC3934. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
