[anti-abuse-wg] AA-WG List Discussion & Etiquette

Colleagues,

It is a great pity that I feel I have to send a third mail in as many days.

This is a list to discuss, in a professional manner, ways to deal, via
technology, policy or other methods, with abuse on the Internet.
Thankfully this is what the vast, vast majority of people on this list do.

It is not a place to attack others or to repeat the same accusations
over and over. It's a place to work together, to find common ground and
to reach consensus on the best way forward.

It is also not a place to directly report abuse. This WG cannot act
directly against anyone, nor should it be able to. That is for other bodies.

This does not mean that we cannot comment on other organisations or
actions when they are abusing the Internet, but we can do so in a
reasonable and professional fashion.

If you aren't here for that, then I suggest you go somewhere else on the
Internet. There are many places that will cater to your needs.

I also realise that there are different interpretations of reasonable
and professional, but I think even with some very wide bands some recent
contributions have strayed well into unacceptable territory.

I know there are people who feel Tobias and I are censoring them or
picking sides or some such thing. This is not the case. The requirements
don't vary depending on who you are. This is all about what you do or
say either on this list or at a physical meeting of the Working Group.

Everyone is free to leave this list whenever they wish, but I would
greatly prefer if people stayed and contributed in the manner I have
described above.

As always, feel free to contact Tobias and I on aa-wg-chair at ripe.net to
discuss this or other matters. I realise that not everyone on the list
is a native English speaker, so if anything I have written is unclear, I
apologise, I would be more than happy to talk directly and remove any
confusion.

I very much hope that we can now move on to other topics, or even return
to the substantive part of the current one.

Thank you,

Brian

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