On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:32:15AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: > >As one of the IETF list's "sargent at arms", I certainly don't see > >Harald's one-time, single line posting as being egregious in any shape > >or form. I also didn't see it as a personal attack. > > sorry for the badly written note. i was trying to focus on getting the > procedure used, not specify who it should be used against. The criteria of what is and isn't acceptable can be found in RFC 3005. As far as the actual procedure, it's fairly informal. The sargeants at arms (currently Jordi Martinez and myself) are appointed by the IETF chair and serve at his pleasure. In the case of a problem, they will confer with each other and the IETF chair (unless there is a conflict of interest caused by the, ah, heated discussion involving the IETF chair) and send a private warning to those who are violating the mailing list charter as specified in RFC 3005. If the behavior does not stop, this will be followed up with a public warning, and if that doesn't work, suspension of posting privileges, presumably with an exponentially increasing time period for repeated infractions. Fortunately, after this system was introduced we haven't had a need to invoke the procedures, so some of the details haven't been ironed out. The general principle, though, is that the mailing list moderation should be done with as light of a touch as possible. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf