The usual practice when a hair o-authors a document is for the co-chair to manage all aspects of the document life cycle. In this case, due to the co-chair being unavailable, we have a bit of a problem. For non-contentious documents, we can easily manage anyway. In this case, the document is quite contentious. Which makes things complicated.

Yours,
Joel

On 3/1/2020 6:02 PM, Robert Raszuk wrote:

Exception ? As far as I see it this is rather a norm in multiple WGs across IETF for chair to co-author or contribute to his area of focus. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. In fact it is expected for chair to read the draft  and comment othen resulting in becoming a contributor or at least being added to the Ack section.

If this saga continues any further I recommend we start first by obsoleting RFC8200 too. After all it's main author Bob Hinden was also a 6man chair who requested publication of 2460bis:

2016-12-02
2016-12-02 17:06:39 -0800
08 Bob Hinden IETF WG state changed to Submitted to IESG for Publication from WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up
2016-12-02
        08      Bob Hinden      IESG state changed to Publication Requested
2016-12-02
        08      Bob Hinden      IESG process started in state Publication 
Requested
2016-11-30
        08      Bob Hinden      Changed document writeup
2016-11-15
        08      Bob Hinden      New version available: 
draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08.txt


On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 9:38 PM S Moonesamy <[email protected] <mailto:sm%[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi Andrew,

    [Cc to ietf@]

    I'll disclose that I am also affiliated with a
    RIR.  I am copying this message to the
    Responsible Area Director [1] for the SPRING Working Group.

    At 01:17 AM 01-03-2020, Andrew Alston wrote:
     >While some on this list have made references to
     >Bruno’s integrity – let me start by saying – I
     >make no comment on anyone’s integrity – because
     >I don’t know Mr. Decraene well enough to comment
     >on that, and because I find an individual’s
     >integrity in a discussion about if a potential
     >conflict exists to be irrelevant. When people
     >recuse for conflict in any normal environment,
     >it is not because they will act on the conflict
     >necessarily, it is because of perception,
     >because it can taint the issue under discussion,
     >and it leaves the process open to both attack and appeal.

    My question was about the process and the role
    with respect to
    draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming.  I am
    not personally acquainted with Mr. Decraene to
    comment about his integrity.  It has been pointed
    out to me that the person is well-known.  I don't
    see what that has to do with the question which I asked.

    There is a message at
    https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/spring/3zbi71sjcJ8KaFgVIrF2Ymx4GC8/

    which lists the Responsible Area Director as a
    Contributor.  In my opinion, the procedural
    aspects are problematic.  I commented about a
    somewhat similar topic previously [2].  From what
    I understand, RFC 2026 is applicable for all
    documents coming out of the IETF
    Stream.  According to that RFC, the "procedures
    are explicitly aimed at recognizing and adopting
    generally-accepted practices".  One of the
    definitions in RFC 7776 is: "A conflict of
    interest may arise if someone involved in the
    process of handling a harassment report is in the
    role of Reporter, Respondent, or
    Subject.  Furthermore, a conflict of interest
    arises if the person involved in the process of
    handling a harassment report is closely
    associated personally or through affiliation with
    any of the Reporter, Respondent, or
    Subject".  The general practice, in such a
    situation, is recusal.  I'll invite the
    Responsible Area Director to comment about
    whether there should be an exception to that practice and the
    rationale for it.

    Regards,
    S. Moonesamy

    1. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/spring/about/
    2.
    https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/xBjDAIM4hdnSTyxL7QHlbiFX3eE/


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