I was the unnamed person who pointed out the guidelines to Jay.
These days, there are literally 100s of conferences, funding
opportunities, committee sessions, and other standards bodies that play
in the internet network space. (I myself get something on the order of
1-2 invitations a month to review conference papers from wildly diverse
conferences) A decision was made at least 20 years ago to keep those
off of the IETF list unless they were sponsored or endorsed by the IETF
or ISOC to keep the focus of the list on us rather than making it yet
another mailing list for mass solicitation.
I.e., there's a reason that ICANN DNS symposiums are announced on the
DNSOP list rather than the IETF list.
In the instant case, the IESG or IAB could have made the decision that
this was an "endorsed" item and noted it as such and had Jay publish it
on their behalf. This wasn't what happened though.
If anyone has something that they think maybe of interest, but probably
falls afoul of the clause cited - send it to Jay and ask him to check
whether the IESG or IAB is willing to endorse it. Otherwise, I hope
you'll refrain from using the list to publicize non-IETF activities.
Later, Mike
On 5/8/2021 1:00 PM, Pete Resnick wrote:
First let me say that I don't care what guidelines we use for posting
to the list; I think Jay's original message was probably reasonable to
post. I was simply responding to Andy's comment that his message
"certainly fits" the description of the list; it's not "certain", and
certainly not to the unnamed person who commented to Jay that it
didn't. All I meant was that we should have a real discussion about
whether or not it fit and write down our conclusion somewhere so that
we don't need to have this discussion again.
That said:
On 7 May 2021, at 18:48, S Moonesamy wrote:
The burden is on the person complaining about a message to explain
why it is not okay.
On 8 May 2021, at 6:38, Carsten Bormann wrote:
(And, as usual, the detection of this as a charter violation created
an order of magnitude more noise than the pointer itself.)
Using words like "burden" and "charter violation" isn't helpful and
makes this sound like some sort of legal exercise. There are no
burdens of proof here; we're trying to be polite to one another and
have some guidelines to help people do that.
On 2021-05-07, at 17:26, Pete Resnick <resnick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But it doesn't fit the IETF list charter, RFC 3005:
Inappropriate postings include:
- Announcements of conferences, events, or activities that are not
sponsored or endorsed by the Internet Society or IETF.
The English I learned doesn’t make an announcement of the form “here
are people offering money so you can continue your IETF work” an
"Announcement of conferences, events, or activities”.
The main page that Jay pointed to looks to me, at least at first
glance, to be an announcement of an activity not sponsored or endorsed
by ISOC or the IETF. In this case, it sounds like one that it would be
good for IETF folks to know about, and we might agree ones like this
in the future should not be looked sideways at. Are we OK with all
Internet technology grant announcements on this list? What about job
opportunities?
Again, I'm only suggesting it's a good idea to come to some agreement
about what's reasonable and what's not.
Maybe me announcing that I wrote another version of some piece of
software that implements IETF protocols and plan to continue doing
that, does, much more so, but nobody would complain about that.
If it had instructions about how to buy the latest version, perhaps
with an "IETF Member Discount", and pointers to your other wonderful
products available on your website, I bet you would get complaints. :-)
“Considerable latitude”, as Amelia said…
I'm all for it. So let's just decide what's reasonable and what's not.
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