On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 03:38:33PM +0100, Jim Reid <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 16 lines which said: > Doesn't everyone participate in the IETF as an individual rather > than a representative of their employer? I also thought we're > supposed to judge I-Ds based on their content, not who wrote them. Here, we are not discussing an I-D but an opinion text about the IETF. For the I-D, don't tell me you're evaluating all I-D for their content, you certainly have a way to prune the feed, and the authors are probably one of the criteria used.