I quickly reviewed
the <http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/jefsey-pr-action.php>. It calls
for some quick comments.
- the petition text is IMHO standard, however my non-American culture
finds some wording purposely hurting. But IANAL.
- the proposition has a first annex of often wrongly/childly
characterized (as this is probably usual in a controversy) exchanges
and links to a list of mails. The quick perusal of all these selected
and out of context mails seems to globally weak the accusation.
More seriously, this calls for a comment on the motives of the action
and on the "lynching" RFC 3683 seems to permit without warranting the
rights of the "lynched" person. I do not wish to comments this by
mail and will simply submit two Drafts which will permit to more
seriously discuss and update the technical and systemic issues
involved and suggestion proposed. I also need IESG guidance on three
particular points.
I cannot object Harald's request to send him support in using the
IETF list. I only suggest you keep it as short as possible so we do
not waste time and bandwidth over noise. This only happens because I
came here considering the IETF important to the Internet users, and
because I did refuse to transform it in an intra/inter-SSDO
battle-field: I thank people wishing to support me to keep sending
_private_ mails or to abstain wasting their time. Feuds happens in
Research when "official" thinking is challenged. Usually History
decides the loser is the bitter.
I do not have much time to dedicate to this, but I am ready to help a
deeper thinking about RFC 3683 practicalities over a real case. I
think the IETF needs it, not to be used, and may be blocked, in
circumstances discussed by RFC 3869. This is why I do _co-sign_
Harald's motion (with mention: "to get a copy of the co-signatories
exchanges and to help the discussion of the RFC 3683 refinements the
IETF we probably needs").
I only see this as a confirmation, by my competition, of the probable
market impact of "my" technical propositions (based on the work of
many worldwide), and an attempt to prevent or discredit them and my
planned appeals or appeals support on behalf of the common good.
This is only for me a pressing incitation to develop them faster. I
am going to do this without waiting anymore for the consensus I hoped
still possible. The attempt to still delay me/us has failed. Sorry.
jfc
I have now finished my work on a petition explaining to the IESG why
I think Jefsey Morfin should be banned from posting on the IETF list
under RFC 3683.
It's time to figure out whether there are more people who agree with
me and the other signatories on this.
Please read the petition, and if you agree, sign it.
Petition: <http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/jefsey-pr-action.php>
The online version includes references to sample postings by Jefsey.
Main body of text reproduced below.
This message will be posted to the IETF list, the ietf-languages
list and the LTRU mailing list. Please keep discussion on the IETF list.
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Jefsey Morfin PR-Action Petition
Last modified: September 28, 2005
This message is a request to the IESG to consider
approving a PR-action, as per RFC 3683, barring the
person known as Jean-Francois Charles Morfin
("Jefsey"), an individual known to be posting from the
addresses jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx, rd@xxxxxxxxx,
info@xxxxxxxxx, info@xxxxxxxx,
info@xxxxxxxxxxxx and jefsey@xxxxxxxxx, from the
IETF mailing list, and giving blanket permission to any
manager of any IETF mailing list to bar him from
posting there, as per the RFC.
Disruptive behaviour
Based on the public record of Jefsey's postings, we
believe that Jefsey Morfin is engaging in disruptive
behaviour that has caused considerable damage to the
ability of the IETF to proceed speedily and with
consensus in the working groups in which he has
participated.
In particular, his postings exhibit:
* Use of inflammatory language towards others [1]
* Misquoting and misrepresenting of other people's
arguments [2]
* Refusal to stop pursuing an argument in the face of
consensus against him [3]
* Misrepresentation of non-IETF organizations [4]
* Personal attacks and use of threatening language
against people who disagree with him, using
attributes such as language, nationality or
employer [5]
* Postings that seem to serve no purpose apart from
inciting negative reaction [6]
* Very limited ability to contribute anything with
actual technical content to the discussion
Effects of this behaviour is to make other people
either angry enough to post further inflammatory emails
to the lists (disrupting constructive discussion) or to
cause participants with valuable insight to drop out of
the conversation (reducing the input to the IETF
process), or to refuse to consider contributing work on
documents in WGs where Jefsey is active (making it
harder to get work done).
Previous chastisement history
A number of people have tried explaining to Jefsey why
his behaviour is inappropriate. No change in behaviour
has occured. [A]
To the petitioners' knowledge, his posting rights to
IETF mailing lists have been suspended three times -
once to the LTRU WG's mailing list [B], and twice to
the ietf-languages mailing list [C][D].
These suspensions have produced no change in behaviour.
Conclusion
We, the undersigned, believe that the material
presented above provides a clear case that Jefsey
Morfin is being "abusive of the consensus-driven
process", as required by RFC 3683, and therefore ask
that the IESG undertake a PR-action against Jefsey
Morfin.
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