IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures
RFC 7776
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(March 2016; No errata)
Updated by RFC 8716
Was draft-farrresnickel-harassment (individual in gen area)
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Authors | Pete Resnick , Adrian Farrel | ||
Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | Ines Robles | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2015-09-23) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7776 (Best Current Practice) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Jari Arkko | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Resnick Request for Comments: 7776 Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. BCP: 25 A. Farrel Updates: 2418, 7437 Juniper Networks Category: Best Current Practice March 2016 ISSN: 2070-1721 IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures Abstract IETF Participants must not engage in harassment while at IETF meetings, virtual meetings, or social events or while participating in mailing lists. This document lays out procedures for managing and enforcing this policy. This document updates RFC 2418 by defining new working group guidelines and procedures. This document updates RFC 7437 by allowing the Ombudsteam to form a recall petition without further signatories. Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7776. Resnick & Farrel Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 7776 Anti-Harassment Procedures March 2016 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2016 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. The Ombudsteam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Size of the Ombudsteam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Appointing the Ombudsteam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Professional Advisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.4. Qualifications and Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.5. Term of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.6. Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.7. Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.8. Disputes with the IETF Chair Regarding the Ombudsteam . . 7 4. Handling Reports of Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Ombudsteam Operating Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5. Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.1. Remedies for Respondents in IETF Positions . . . . . . . 11 5.2. Purpose of Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6. Disputes with the Ombudsteam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7. Conflicts of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Resnick & Farrel Best Current Practice [Page 2] RFC 7776 Anti-Harassment Procedures March 2016 1. Introduction The IETF has general policies for managing disruptive behavior in the context of IETF activities. In particular, [RFC7154] provides a set of guidelines for personal interaction in the IETF, and [RFC2418] and [RFC3934] give guidelines for how to deal with disruptive behavior that occurs in the context of IETF working group face-to-face meetings and on mailing lists. However, there is other problematic behavior that may be more personal and that can occur in the context of IETF activities (meetings, mailing list discussions, or social events) that does not directly disrupt working group progress but nonetheless isShow full document text