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Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-10-03 18:40:22
From: Dean Anderson <dean(_at_)av8(_dot_)com>

In the message Randy concludes that

    "If anyone wishes to raise an issue, (s)he should do on on the
working group
    mailing list by posting a message detailing the concern and, if
possible,
    supplying proposed replacement text."

But it would seem that Morfin did just exactly that, with a lot of
supporting
documentation.  It seems to me that Randy Presuhn just doesn't want to
address
the concerns raised, nor does he want anyone _else_ to address the
concerns.

Not the case at all. Everyone else in the WG that was voicing pertinent
concerns was doing so (i) in a reasonably clear manner that all could
understand (ii) on the list and (iii) whenever appropriate supplying
specific suggested revisions to the text. There were occasions on which
Mr. Morfin made clear and pertinent comments on the list, and when he
did they were welcomed. On some occasions, he suggested specific text,
and when he did those suggestions were considered openly. On several
occasions, however, he posted messages that tended toward being opaque
or overly long or both, and far more often than not he didn't give
concrete suggestions for specific textual changes. Within some of those
often-lengthy posts he pointed to documents he had placed on other
sites, and there were many things that led others in the WG to believe
that the material on those other sites was supporting his entirely
different agenda rather than the work of the WG. Perhaps some of that
content was useful to the work of the WG, but by that point there was
already a high level of frustration among many WG members, such that
there really was an onus on him to demonstrate that it would be
worthwhile to spend the time going off to review them. This he did not
do.


In
fact, Randy actually admits in the same message to having advised
others _not_
to review Morfin's objections.  That seems to be contrary to Last
Call.

I'm not aware of any occasion on which Randy advised members of the WG
not to review Last Call comments that had be submitted in the expected
manner on the WG or IETF lists.



The sample, limited as it is, seems to confirm an unjustifiable
personal attack
on Morfin based, it seems, on personal dislike and intolerance for his
English
language skills

IMO your limited sample is not sufficient to support your point. If it
were representative, then one would expect that several others
monitoring the WG discussions would be providing that confirmation. I
have not seen any indication of that happening.


Peter Constable

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