A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists
RFC 3683, “A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists”, is a Best Current Practice document published in March 2004 by M. Rose. It has since been updated by RFC 9245. It has been obsoleted by RFC 9945 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
All self-governing bodies have ways of managing the scope of participant interaction. The IETF uses a consensus-driven process for developing computer-communications standards in an open fashion. An important part of this consensus-driven process is the pervasive use of mailing lists for discussion. Notably, in a small number of cases, a participant has engaged in a "denial-of-service" attack to disrupt the consensus-driven process. Regrettably, as these bad faith attacks become more common, the IETF needs to establish a practice that reduces or eliminates these attacks. This memo recommends such a practice for use by the IETF. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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