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Re: Last Call: <draft-farrresnickel-harassment-05.txt> (IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures) to Best Current Practice

2015-03-09 15:44:28
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jari Arkko 
<jari(_dot_)arkko(_at_)piuha(_dot_)net> wrote:
For what it is worth, we’ve been told that there’s probably also (more) risk 
associated with not having this procedure in place :-)

That's probably difficult to estimate given the international reach of
the IETF (should counsel review the civil laws of... every country
from which we have participants or where the IETF meets? certainly
not).

I'm not sure that not having a procedure for dealing with harassment
as defined is sufficient to cause significant risk of civil lawsuits,
but certainly not handling complaints about such harassment could -and
very likely would- be.  This is probably justification enough for
having such a procedure, or at least for having one we can publish in
a hurry if we needed it.  (Perhaps that happened here?  I don't know.)

Nico
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