Hi Keith
My comments below,
On 02/21/2014 08:19 PM, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:
In my view, a successful harassment policy needs to do two things:
1) Clearly establish what is unacceptable behavior.
2) Clearly indicate whom to go to for help.
Section 4 satisfies (2) adequately. This statement, however, indicates that you are punting on (1).
IMHO the Requirement 1 is a must, to give good reasons for some penalties.
While I understand the desire to do (1), in my experience with discussing harassment policies in other organizations it has been a rathole, or at least a slippery slope.
Yes, but only because societies still don't solve it when interacting with other cultures or minorities. Usually organisations should build a strong culture related to its vision and policies. In countries, organisations, universities, etc. they encourage establishing of clubs/societies to make people interact under social goals or activities (do we have social societies in IETF?) I think that is missing or I am not aware because was remotely working.
I know that there is a social event in meetings and hopefully will try to join if I get availability time in this meeting.
While it's not too hard to identify a few obviously harassing or abusive behaviors, it can be very hard to draw a bright line between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in general.
Yes it is very hard for engineers, so we need external advise which is very good for this best practice work.
Simple policies seem to work much better than complicated ones.
Yes but if the harassing problem is complicated with many variable parameters, there is no simple best solution for that. Intelligent or wise solutions are best and IMHO they are complicated which may need someone with large experience to achieve.
I like that the authors are very well experts with IETF experience but if we get an additional author with different experience it will help. I recommend the authors to get advise some experts outside IETF as from universities. This problem is never can be solved by expert engineers without social science experts ;-)
Thanks,
AB