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4. Next Meeting and review of AIs

17th September

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Post call comments by Olivier Crepin- Leblond, submitted later due to poor telephone connection:

Two comments:

- on the inclusion of the code of conduct

I am concerned about removing the code of conduct altogether and

therefore object to it.

The current code of conduct defines the type of contravention a mailing

list posting falls under and in the nearly 2 years I have Chaired the

ALAC, I have had to quote it on several instances. Agreed you may have

not heard about it, but I have had to act on several postings to have

them removed from the archives, the poster asked to stop their offensive

postings, spam to be removed from WIKIs, and even had to issue a few

formal warnings. The current code of conduct clearly allows the Chair to

perform such actions under 22.15

The Ombudsman Code of conduct is good, but does not go far enough in my

opinion re: the type of posting that is inappropriate and the type of

action that can be taken by the Chair against such a posting re-occuring.

- on the definitions

I had really bad mobile phone reception during this part of the call (I

dropped a dozen times) so perhaps I missed the consensus. Clearly we

need to separate a "glossary" from a "definitions" section. In any legal

document there is a section that defines words which take a special

meaning in the document so let's make sure we keep that in the document.

In both cases, code of conduct and definitions, Alan is absolutely right

that Web addresses will likely change after 5 years. I suggest that the

documents be given a document name and a document filing code that will

make them easily searchable under any system or using Google -- which

will always find them even if the URLs change. You can then refer to

these documents by their full name and by their filing code. (a bit like

a serial number or docket filing number)