Evaluating a draft on restricting posting rights

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

Jorge,

the IESG has been asked to evaluate the following draft:

draft-mrose-ietf-posting-02.txt

for BCP status, making it part of our ruleset.
I am enclosing a copy, just in case that's easier - it's a short doc.

Questions for you:

- This process creates a public statement that is somewhat semantically 
equivalient to "the IETF says that so-and-so is a worthless idiot".
Does this create significant liability risk for the IETF?

- Is the process outlined in the document strong enough and reasonable 
enough that attempts to collect damages from the IETF would be easily 
dismissable?

- Is having this document and this process better than just doing the same 
thing secretly? (I *hope* that's a rhetorical question!)

- Are there other issues with it from your standpoint?

Just flagging my personal interest up front: I think this procedure, or 
something like it, is needed, unfortunately. So if you tell me it's a bad 
idea, you'll have to explain it carefully :-)

                    Harald