In message <CAEqgTWY+dj+E+dtWV6pAjNhtCcw=E+rgog58Z0Hn=1z6gdy...@mail.gmail.com> Noah <[email protected]> wrote:
>This forum is for public discourse and not intimidation. Apparently not always. Regards, rfg P.S. I hope that someone who is more familiar with AFRINIC formalities and procedures will help me here. I wish to make a formal proposal to amend the AFRINIC Code Of Conduct, but I have no idea how to go about that, so I need help. Specifically, after having reviewed the Code Of Conduct that is online on the AFRINIC web site just now, I see that it fails to specifically and explicitly prohibit the making of threats of either (a) bodily harm or (b) legal action, either against any individual and/or against the membership or community as a whole. The latter is something that we have all just now witnessed on this very mailing list. This is disgusting in the extreme, and is a clear and unambiguous attempt to bully the entire community into silence via threats of legal action. Subject to the rules of various applicable African jurisdictions, anyone is free to sue anyone else, at any time, and for any cause for which they feel that they have a reasonable cause of action. And anyone can do that, at any time, *without* announcing their intentions on an AFRINIC mailing list. It is however highly and clearly inappropriate to post about such legal actions, or to even make legal threats on any AFRINIC mailing list, because any such legal actions, if they are ever brought at all, are clearly private matters between the parties and their attorneys... private matters which clearly do not involve the AFRINIC community as a whole. It is my opinion that the current AFRINIC Code of Conduct does *not* clearly and unambiguously state that threats of either bodily harm or legal action are violations of the Code of Conduct, and as a general principal I *do not* feel that there should now be any enforcement of the Code of Conduct against any behavior which is not already specifically and clearly prohibited by the current Code of Conduct. (That, I think, would be unfair and a violation of due process.) On that basis, I *do not* personally judge that <[email protected]> has comitted a violation of the current Code of conduct, as currently written, but I would urge the greatest possible haste in amending the CoC so as to make such threats, and indeed any and all threats a clear and specific violation of the CoC. _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
