Re: Last Call: A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETFmailing lists to BCP

[Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>]

Some comments...

## Network Working Group                                            M. Rose
## Internet-Draft                              Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
## Expires: November 10, 2003                                  May 12, 2003
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##       A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF mailing lists
##                       draft-mrose-ietf-posting-03
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## 1. Introduction
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##    of abusive or othewise inappropriate postings to IETF mailing lists

s/othewise/otherwise/

##    include:
...
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##    o  announcements of conferences, events, or activities that are not
##       sponsored or endorsed by the Internet Society or IETF.

What does "sponsored by the ... IETF" mean?  Is there a way the IETF 
sponsors something?

##    produce the desired modification in behaviour. However, when those
##    guidelines fail to provide the desired modification in behaviour,

I don't know if this qualifies as a misspelling or just a different 
version of English, but both instances of "behaviour" are flagged by 
my mailer's spell checker.

## 2. A Revocation Practice
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##    o  maintainers of any IETF mailing list may, at their discretion,
##       also remove posting rights to that IETF mailing list.

What is an IETF mailing list?  Clearly the list of a group, but 
DNSEXT lists three on their charter page.  Additionally, provreg may 
soon close down but the mail list continues on - what happens if the 
list is used to run the next round (Draft Standard) effort?  Is it an 
IETF list in the interim?

##    Working groups SHOULD ensure that their associated mailing list is
##    manageable. For example, some may try to circumvent the revocation of
##    their posting rights by changing email addresses.

I can't see how one can deterministically do this.  "On the Internet, 
no one knows you're a dog."  Sorry to be so negative about this 
point, but I felt compelled to mention it.  Perhaps the making the 
above suggestion is better than not.

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