0) { print "You have already asked to be listed with email $email\n"; } else { mail("$name <$email>", "Verification Jefsey PR-Action", "$name: Someone entered your name on the Jefsey Morfin PR-action petition at http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/jefsey-pr-action.php. To confirm your intent to sign onto this petition, please hit the URL below. To refuse to be listed, do nothing. http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/jefsey-pr-action.php?cookie=$cookie In case of trouble, contact harald@alvestrand.no. Do not use \"reply\"! " ); $result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO signature VALUES('$email', '$name', 0, '$cookie', '$cvsrev')"); print "You have been sent an email with an URL to confirm your signature."; } } else if ($_GET[cookie]) { # do something $result = mysql_query("UPDATE signature SET status = 1 WHERE status = 0 AND cookie = $_GET[cookie]") or die("Update signature failed: " . mysql_error()); if (mysql_affected_rows() < 1) { print "Your signature is not valid or already added"; } else if (mysql_affected_rows() > 1) { print "Internal error: Update of $cookie affected multiple rows. Please report the bug!"; } else { print "Your signature is added to the petition."; } } ?>

Jefsey Morfin PR-Action Petition

Submitted to IESG Fri, Oct 7, 2005

This message is a request to the IESG to consider approving a PR-action, as per RFC 3683, barring the person known as Jean-François Charles Morfin ("Jefsey"), an individual known to be posting from the addresses jefsey@jefsey.com, rd@afrac.org, info@afrac.org, info@utel.net, info@dot-root.net and jefsey@online.fr, from the IETF mailing list, and giving blanket permission to any manager of any IETF mailing list to bar him from posting there, as per the RFC.

Disruptive behaviour

Based on the public record of Jefsey's postings, we believe that Jefsey Morfin is engaging in disruptive behaviour that has caused considerable damage to the ability of the IETF to proceed speedily and with consensus in the working groups in which he has participated.

In particular, his postings exhibit:

Use of inflammatory language towards others [1]
Misquoting and misrepresenting of other people's arguments [2]
Refusal to stop pursuing an argument in the face of consensus against him [3]
Misrepresentation of non-IETF organizations [4]
Personal attacks and use of threatening language against people who disagree with him, using attributes such as language, nationality or employer [5]
Postings that seem to serve no purpose apart from inciting negative reaction [6]
Very limited ability to contribute anything with actual technical content to the discussion

Effects of this behaviour is to make other people either angry enough to post further inflammatory emails to the lists (disrupting constructive discussion) or to cause participants with valuable insight to drop out of the conversation (reducing the input to the IETF process), or to refuse to consider contributing work on documents in WGs where Jefsey is active (making it harder to get work done).

Previous chastisement history

A number of people have tried explaining to Jefsey why his behaviour is inappropriate. No change in behaviour has occured. [A]

To the petitioners' knowledge, his posting rights to IETF mailing lists have been suspended three times - once to the LTRU WG's mailing list [B], and twice to the ietf-languages mailing list [C][D].

These suspensions have produced no change in behaviour.

Conclusion

We, the undersigned, believe that the material presented above provides a clear case that Jefsey Morfin is being "abusive of the consensus-driven process", as required by RFC 3683, and therefore ask that the IESG undertake a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin.

Signatories

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Annex: References and examples

These messages, taken individually, give less than a full picture of the effect Jefsey Morfin has had on the groups in which he participated. The reader is encouraged to follow the links into the official archives and review the debate (or lack thereof) that his messages caused.

[1] Inflammatory language, IETF-languages list:
http://eikenes.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-June/003446.html

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03004.html

[2] Misstating other people's position
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03573.html
One reaction to another set of misstatements:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01894.html

[3] Refusal to stop pursuing an argument
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03627.html

[4] Misrepresentation of other organizations - the "Versailles meeting" that nobody else has heard of:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03675.html
Claiming to have contributed to a body where nobody's heard of him:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg37303.html
Misrepresentation of how other organizations conduct their business:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01567.html

[5] Personal attack, IETF-languages list:
http://eikenes.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-June/003369.html
Personal attack and threats, LTRU list:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03788.html

[6] Inflammatory-only posting, LTRU list:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg03720.html

Chastisement history:

[A] Examples of advice
IETF-languages: http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-March/003207.html
IETF list: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg37093.html

[B] LTRU suspension, May 12, 2005:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01737.html

[C] IETF-languages June 15, 2005:
http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-June/003474.html

[D] IETF-languages September 15, 2005:
http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-September/003585.html