[governance] Message to IGC/ was formal notice to Suresh

[Kerry Brown]

While I do not wish to co-sign an appeal at this time I do think that others contributed to this problem and also deserve public notice. Moderating a list such as this is a hard job. Thank you to the moderators for taking this job on. You are doing a good job in trying circumstances. I agree that Suresh deserved a public notice and because of continued arguments about the notice may deserve a 30 day suspension. I would suggest that the whole conversation be reviewed and possibly others that contributed be given public notice as well. The general tone of conversation on this list has deteriorated from discussion/debate to arguing entrenched positions. This as much as personal comment has made me not follow some of the conversations as closely as I'd like. There is a difference between polite debate and spouting dogma which more people than Suresh don't seem to recognise.

Kerry Brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-
> request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Norbert Bollow
> Sent: April-08-13 7:24 AM
> To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
> Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Message to IGC/ was formal notice to Suresh
> 
> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
> 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 
> > I called upon the coordinators to maintain neutrality and help stop
> > these attacks on nominees of other stakeholder communities
> 
> To my best knowledge, no such attacks were happening.
> 
> It is not "attacks on nominees of other stakeholder communities" when
> questions are raised about what boundary lines are used to differentiate
> between different stakeholder categories, and/or about whether a certain
> UN General Assembly resolution has been interpreted in accordance with
> what it actually says.
> 
> Those are legitimate topics of discussion.
> 
> According to the IGC Charter, it is not acceptable when someone works to
> derail such discussion by means of personal attacks and/or other related
> tactics.
> 
> Since you obviously have no intention to change your stance, and you have in
> fact continued to (re)post accusations even after the public warning, the 30
> days suspension of posting rights as foreseen by the Charter is now coming
> into effect.
> 
> For the sake of fairness, I think that there needs to be an exception in case
> you wish to make an appeal, since (except for the case of removal from the
> IGC list, in which case there's an automatic appeal) an appeal requires four
> co-signers. So if you wish to make an appeal, you're welcome to put together
> a message which solicits co-signers for the appeal, and send that to me, and
> I'd post it for you.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert


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