Colleagues, The IETF has some written guidelines about management of and conduct on mailing lists. In particular, the IETF's anti-harassment policy [1] and a number of RFCs [2] [3] [4] [5] and IESG statements [6] [7] form the body of the IETF's guidelines and procedures regarding mailing list management. Although this mailing list is not presently associated with a working group, its management and policies are covered by several of these.
The recurring theme among them is that the lists are to be used for technical or procedural discussion to advance a particular goal, and professionalism is expected of participants. When the debate veers off topic or into anything from the plainly impolite to the patently personal, it serves only to interfere with any progress that's being made. Multiple posts from the last 24 hours certainly have the feel of being outside of what's acceptable. In at least one case, it has resulted in a formal complaint from another participant, which has led me here as one of the two list administrators of record. I understand that it might be fun or even cathartic to beat up on people who disagree with your position, or on those who are members of the DMARC.org "cabal", or any of the other the people you may wish to blame for the mess in which we find ourselves, but I believe we are all better served by cooperating to find a path forward from where we are now rather than engaging in those activities. Learning from the past is fine; pointing fingers about the past is not. Thus, I am reminding all of you of your obligation to keep this discussion professional, on topic, respectful, and friendly. You do neither yourself nor the community any favors by giving in to the temptation to be rude or one-up the other person when you get frustrated. It will not be tolerated here going forward. -MSK, list admin [1] http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/ietf-anti-harassment-policy.html [2] RFC 2418 [3] RFC 3683 [4] RFC 3934 [5] RFC 4633 [6] http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/statement-disruptive-posting.txt [7] http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/moderated-lists.txt
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