Comment by jabwd
6 days ago
Despite the cool shit the guy has done, keep in mind that "venerate" is not the word to use here. djb is very much not a shorthand used in any positive messaging pretty much ever by any cryptographer. He did it to himself, sadly.
Sorry, can you explain what he did to himself?
I would like to know as well. All that is public is that a couple of IETF apparatchiks want to ban him for criticizing corporate and NSA influence:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250513185456/https://mailarchi...
The IETF has now accepted the required new moderation guidelines, which will essentially be a CoC troika that can ban selectively:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mod-discuss/s4y2j3Dv6D...
It is very sad that all open source and Internet institutions are being subverted by bureaucrats.
... if he thinks some WG is making a mistake and he's not welcome there (everyone else seems to be okay with what's happening based on the quoted email on the first link), then - CoC or not - he should then leave, and publicly post distance himself from the outcome.
(Obviously he was never the one to back down from a just fight, but it's important to find the right hill to die on. And allies! And him not following RFC 2026 [from 1996, hardly the peak of Internet bureaucracy] is not a CoC thing anyway.)
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