On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Hector Santos wrote: > Personal filtering is one thing, advocating it to others as a > general practice is another. That is where the IETF or the WG > process tends to go sour -- when it does appear to be a "private > club," and "ignorance" and "Follow the Chieftain" syndrome is high. > While it is obviously used to move an agenda forward, its not always > pretty, nor fair when it happens and it hasn't been convincing of > late the end results are often better. You may get your "RFC" but > at what cost? If someone is carrying out a denial of service attack against an someone on the IESG, recommending that they filter someone who has proven that they are lacking in clue doesn't seem to me to be the same thing as a "private club". - Ted