At 13:19 09-05-2012, Pete Resnick wrote:
Shown how and by whom? I think you're conflating two things here.
Any participant can *call* for sanctions to be applied to anyone
they believe has violated the policy. No libel in saying that I
believe you have violated the policy. The sanctions ought not be
applied until the chair/AD/whoever reasonably determines that the
policy has in fact been violated. But that's not what the sentence
above is talking about. I don't want participants to think that they
can't bring up the issue of violation without some sort of "burden
of proof". Can we figure out some words that express both things?
Here's some text for the entire paragraph:
Any IETF participant can call for sanctions to be applied to anyone they
believe has violated the IETF's IPR policy. This can be done by
sending email to the appropriate IETF mailing list. The area director or
working group chair will discuss the matter with the IETF participant and
determine whether the policy has in fact been violated. Thus, when
sanctions are called for, working group chairs will be the first actors
when there is an active working group involved in the technical work, and
area directors will be the first actors in other cases.
I avoided the "including a short summary of the relevant facts and
events" as it comes out as "burden of proof".
Regards,
-sm