Re: Describing which behavior is appropriate or not (was: Last Call: <draft-eggert-bcp45bis-06.txt> (IETF Discussion List Charter) to Best Current Practice)

[Lloyd W <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 Oct 2021, at 09:32, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's hard to escape the impression that some of those insisting on "professional behavior" are looking for a way to exclude those who they deem not qualified, so as to get out of the way of the Big Corporations who want IETF to do what they want it to do.

Absolutely. That's why I threw together

http://lloydwood.users.sourceforge.net/Personal/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts/README.html

in my defence, because every so often I get asked to justify my worth and existence to some random corporate apparatchik of some random company who has decided that he (and it's always a he. women just don't do that whole  'you must justify your right to exist to me' thing) dislikes my participation in an IETF mailing list.

And what justifies their participation in the IETF? Why, their employer!

L.

it's really all a bit "show me your papers".