The PR-Action related aspects of a person using a bogus identity seem easy to address, perhaps using the mechanism that Harald suggested. However, the implications on IPR are much harder. In the IETF, posting to a maillist and speaking at a meeting are two ways of making contributions. If we have the ability to speak anonymously, how can the contributions be traced to a real person or company to support their IPR warranties/licenses. This leads me to a conclusion that we need a clear policy stating that communications need to be linked to the real, verifiable persons making them. Many people use gmail (and the like) email accounts without any attempt to hide their identity. In fact may people participate with more than one email address without causing any confusion. So, I see the need for a lightweight process to validate an identity whenever there is a suspected abuse. Russ _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf