[ripe-list] Updated Draft RIPE Code of Conduct Published for Community Review

Dear Leo,

On 04/03/2021 19:25, Randy Bush wrote:
>> An updated draft RIPE Code of Conduct (CoC) is now published 

thank you - and the task force - for this work.
It's a "good enough" document!

I am speaking both as a member of the community that, due to my gender,
belong to a marginalised group; and as a participant in the "Diversity
Task Force",  and as a privileged insider and old-timer with a position
of relative power, AND as someone in a role of "service" as a Trusted
Contact. So this new document satisfies the needs of my first 3 roles;
and the fourth - not really.

Therefore...

While I understand that the follow-up documents will take some longer
time, what I'm missing is still a *short* definition of the "team":

"The "RIPE CoC Team" is a group of volunteers from the community,
tasked to handle escalations of the CoC violations.

How they are elected, trained and governed is described in a follow-up
document. "

... fairly early in the document: just before "national law" section.


And I would really like to see / like you to add
(just before "Reporting Procedures")
CALL TO ACTION that EMPOWERS everyone in the community to act!

What You Can Do:

1. Please be aware of your own behavior;
if you notice that you have violated CoC,
STOP, apologize, and repair the harm / damage done.

2. If you notice that another community member is violating CoC, ask
them to STOP, and to start behaving in an inclusive way

3. If someone is telling you to STOP behaving in an un-acceptible way,
please listen to them and change what you are doing

4. If the direct approach does not work, escalate by approaching "The
RIPE CoC Team".

I see that this would be making the document longer,
and I still think it's valuable -- it's giving people options to control
what they are doing, and to speak up.

Of course, this is just a suggested text -- I'm sure someone can make
this into one sentence.... if you all agree it's a good thing to add.


Nits:
- please make the date, authors and version# integral part of the doc
- "for more than 1/4 century"->since 1989->much clearer& will age better
- make the url ripe.net/coc
- rename "Behaviour" title to "Inclusive Behaviour"
(or encouraged, acceptable, desired, expected... behaviour )
- "people protected" -> remove bullet points, make it a CSV line of text
:) in order to make the document shorter ("the people" too!)

In conclusion:

As part of the Trusted Contacts team, I understand that, in this
transition period, we would be dealing with communities complaints based
on both old & new CoC, until there is a new "team". I am fine with that,
since the new CoC is not much different from the previous, and a slight
improvement too.

Regards,
Vesna


> You can find the document here:
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https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-code-of-conduct/