RFC 3683: A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists
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Current document in this lineage: RFC 9945 — IETF Community Moderation
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
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.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC3683
- Published
- March 2004
- Authors
- M. Rose
- Status
- BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 13
- Also known as
- —
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 3683 (2004)
- RFC 3934 (2004)
- RFC 9945 (2026) ✓
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2 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.
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