The IESG has received a request from Harald Alvestrand to approve an RFC 3683 PR-action ("posting rights" action) for JFC (Jefsey) Morfin as a result of a pattern of prior warning and posting rights suspensions for off-topic postings to the LTRU working group and ietf-languages mailing lists that have not produced a change in behavior. This behavior has been characterized as a "denial-of-service" attack to disrupt the consensus-driven process as described in Section 1 of RFC 3683. A timeline of warnings and posting rights suspensions related to this request is included below.
The IESG will consider this request. If approved, the PR-action described in Section 2 of RFC 3683 includes provisions to allow list administrators to suspend Mr. Morfin's posting rights to the LTRU working group and ietf-languages mailing list for at least one year. Maintainers of other IETF mailing lists may also remove posting rights to their mailing lists at their discretion. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the iesg@ietf.org or ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 17 February 2006. For the IESG, Scott Hollenbeck Applications Area Director -------------------------- Private warnings sent for LTRU working group mailing list postings: 7 July 2005 16 July 2005 23 September 2005 26 October 2005 Public warnings and suspensions for LTRU working group and ietf-languages mailing list postings: 17 March 2005 (ietf-languages warning) http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-March/003236.html 5 April 2005 (LTRU warning) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg00564.html 12 May 2005 (LTRU suspension) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01737.html 26 May 2005 (LTRU warning) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01897.html (Used as basis for 4 July suspension.) 15 June 2005 (ietf-languages suspension) http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-June/003474.html 4 July 2005 (LTRU suspension) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg02532.html (Appealed to AD, appeal upheld, new warning given.) 5 July 2005 (LTRU warning) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg02548.html 15 September 2005 (ietf-languages suspension) http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-September/003585.html 26 September 2005 (LTRU warning) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03755.html 7 October 2005 PR-Action request sent to IESG http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg38183.html 15 October 2005 (LTRU warning) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03941.html 8 November 2005 (LTRU suspension) http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg04032.html (Appealed to AD, appeal denied by AD.) 20 November 2005 (ietf-languages suspension) http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-November/003811.html (Appealed to AD/IESG, appeal denied by IESG, appealed to the IAB.) 13 January 2006 (ietf-languages suspension) http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2006-January/003854.html _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf