Hello,
The IETF Administration LLC sent an announcement about legal advice
which it received in regards to "specific circumstances where it may
need to restrict an individual's access to IETF IT systems or face
potentially serious legal consequences".
There is a scope limitation in BCP 101:
"The document does not propose any changes related to the standards
process as currently conducted by the Internet Engineering Steering
Group (IESG) and Internet Architecture Board (IAB) (see BCP 9
[RFC2026] and BCP 39 [RFC2850])."
A participant would not be able to send this email to this mailing
list if he/she was blocked by the IETF IT system used for this
mailing list. It is unclear whether this mailing list is still
viewed as one of the venues related to the standards
process. However, there are other mailing lists, e.g. last-call@,
which is a venue related to the standards process. There wasn't any
restriction of access (by email) to the standards process for well
over a decade. I don't remember seeing RFC 8716 invoked over the
last two years. It is very unfortunate that the consultation is not
within the scope specified in BCP 101. Furthermore, there isn't any
evidence of a problem with respect to RFC 8716.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
