--On Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:09 AM +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> For instance, I claim that the person mentioned in section 10 >> of RFC 5242 may be actually the same person who is the target >> of a PR-action, with just a small modification of his name. >> If this is true, he cannot post on IETF mailing lists and >> should be banned of "Acknowledgments" sections as well! > No, this needs an RFC 3683 update - the RFC mentions > acknowledgements only in the title of its acknowledgements > section; steps need to be taken at once to rectify this > severely overlooked issue. > > We can't have people mounting denial of service attacks > against the IETF by being mentioned in acknowledgements > section - that would be Just Too Impolite! Of course, this would contradict the requirements of various other documents that the acknowledgements contain a full description of everyone who contributed substantively. So those documents would all need to be updated to make appropriate exceptions. john _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf