Hi Jacob, Keith, Brian,
At 12:39 PM 16-07-2019, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews wrote:
Several months ago a draft was posted to a WG I don't normally
contribute to. I had relevant deployment experience, and also wanted
to ask questions to better understand the topic. However, the first
post was one WG regular telling the author "You are insane to
propose <technical thing>."
At 01:57 PM 16-07-2019, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Clearly that was out of order and IMHO the WG chairs should have said so.
But (having started professional life among physicists) I don't think
it can be called unusual. As a matter of curiosity, I just ran a search
on my personal email archives and found 174 occurences of the word "insane"
going back to 1995.
I took a quick look at some Working Group mailing lists. On one of
them, there was an email between an IETF participant from an
English-speaking country and another IETF participant from a
non-English-speaking country. In that email there is a comment
similar to what is described in the first extract which is quoted above.
What happened in the past (re. Brian's comment) may be useful to
understand the traditions of the IETF. The email which I mentioned
was sent last year and the Working Group Chairs were silent about
what was said in it.
The following sentence is from a RFC: "The IETF strives, through
these guidelines for conduct, to create and maintain an environment
in which every person is treated with dignity, decency, and
respect". Should the sentence be removed from the RFC?
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
