On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For what it is worth, we’ve been told that there’s probably also (more) risk associated with not having this procedure in place :-) That's probably difficult to estimate given the international reach of the IETF (should counsel review the civil laws of... every country from which we have participants or where the IETF meets? certainly not). I'm not sure that not having a procedure for dealing with harassment as defined is sufficient to cause significant risk of civil lawsuits, but certainly not handling complaints about such harassment could -and very likely would- be. This is probably justification enough for having such a procedure, or at least for having one we can publish in a hurry if we needed it. (Perhaps that happened here? I don't know.) Nico --