[TLS] Re: [Uta] Recall Petition pursuant to § 7.1 .1 of RFC 8713: SEC AD Deb Cooley

Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:33:17 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.tls,gmane.ietf.uta,gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <CABcZeBPirXjG+Wx3Ge_hPpowPQw5m7A-moWkX_Q=3wbE-HJpqg@mail.gmail.com>
This is not how recalls work. A recall petition needs to be signed by 20
nomcom-eligible
IETF community members and is sent to the ISOC President [0]:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8713#name-member-trustee-and-director

What you have here is just an email to the TLS mailing list, which has no
effect.

-Ekr


[0] The ombudsteam can also initiate a recall in cases of harassment but
you don't appear to be claiming that this is that.



On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 10:26 AM Timo Gerke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Community,
>
> I hereby initiate a Recall Petition pursuant to § 7.1.1 of
> RFC 8713 against SEC AD Deb Cooley, regarding a significant
> breach in confidentiality of communication.
>
> While her technical competence within the Security Area is
> recognized without a doubt, the NomCom MAY consider to verify the
> trustworthiness of the named SEC AD based on the documented
> procedural infractions.
>
> To safeguard the fundamental integrity of the IETF standards
> process, the technical evidence regarding this unauthorized
> backchannel disclosure is provided below.
>
> TECHNICAL EVIDENCE OF SECURITY LACK
>
> 1. My Private Notice to SEC AD Deb Cooley's officially in
> Datatracker regisered Mailaddress
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 10:15:36 +0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
> Content-Language: en-US, de-DE
> From: Timo Gerke <[email protected]>
> To: "Deb Cooley (IETF, AD Security Area)" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Notice: Operational Analysis & Cluster C430 Deadlock
> (TLS/UTA)
>
> 2. SEC AD Deb Cooley's response
> References: <[email protected]>
> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> From: Deb Cooley <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 06:42:16 +0100
> Subject: Re: Notice: Operational Analysis & Cluster C430 Deadlock
> (TLS/UTA)
> To: Timo Gerke <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Rescorla <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Timo Gerke
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