On Aug 27, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IMHO that's not a job for the sergeant at arms. The SAA is responsible for how things are said. The shepherd -- or supershepherd or whatever -- would be responsible for the substance. I think it should be fairly obvious even to one not practiced in the art that a lot of the postings to the ietf mailing list recently have been simple repeats of points previously made, with no additional substance, which, well intentioned or not, purely have the effect of making it harder to evaluate consensus. But sure, the responsible AD could also intervene.