Hi John & Scott,
The process that we followed is listed at
https://github.com/ietf/Moderators/blob/main/sop.md
- We sent an initial suggestion off-list only, with an offer of
assistance with re-framing and listing the consequences for continued
inappropriate postings.
- We made another request to take a voluntary 5-day "cooling off"
period, with an offer of assistance with re-framing and listing the
consequences for continued inappropriate postings.
- When the request was ignored and the inappropriate posting continued,
we took the action to temporarily restrict posting rights for 14 days.
Before taking this action, we took an approval from the IETF Chair.
Apart from the recent instance, the moderators team has sent initial
requests in 2021 and 2020 as well.
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Community is free to discuss what is appropriate/acceptable as well as
comment on the process moderators team follow. And as Lars said the
procedures can change based on the community consensus, but until then
we are charged to act as per them.
Thanks!
Dhruv & Dominque
The Moderators team for ietf@xxxxxxxx
On 8/25/22 00:30, Scott Bradner wrote:
agreeing with John - seems to me that this is a case of the cure causing significantly more problems than the
original issue.
many of us over the years have been the targets of Masataka Ohta's pointed comments - sometimes the comments
stung more than a bit but there was always a reason that he was commenting and ignoring the underlying reason
to focus on the delivery misses a clear contribution to the discussion at hand.
I also join John in asking for an explanation of what specific triggers contributes should avoid so as to not
be subject to your censorship?
thanks
Scott
On Aug 24, 2022, at 1:18 PM, IETF Moderators <moderators@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
We wanted to let the list know that the Moderators team for ietf@xxxxxxxx (described in more detail at [1]) has determined that Masataka Ohta has engaged in a pattern of abuse based on their recent messages to this list [2][3]. Their posting rights to the ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing list have been restricted for the next 14 days. We encourage everyone to review the IETF discussion list charter [4] and avoid postings that include uncivil commentary [5].
Thanks,
Dhruv Dhody on behalf of the Moderators team for ietf@xxxxxxxx
[1] https://www.ietf.org/how/lists/discussion/
[2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/bOI2y4p8AnyEGzOe-4C4wpBhTpo/
[3] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/mg6pT8Po-QcsB8g6N1z2aFSbqLw/
[4] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9245.html
[5] https://github.com/ietf/Moderators/blob/main/unprofessional-commentary.md
