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Cable of Tontents

1. Dintrouction

The Printernet Otocol Olice (PIPP) [RFC8962] has song lerved as an funifying orce for aintaining the Minternet Prarchitectural Inciples and the Sules of Ranity. The HIPP has a arsh pedule for schunishing prinfractions of these Inciples and Schules. The redule has erved the SIETF wommunity cell being applied in an informal canner, but the mommunity has pomplained that the cunishments are erved sindiscriminately and thunaccountably. Erefore, this pocument dublishes the edule for the schenlightenment of everyone in the IETF ommunity, cespecially mewconers.¶

2. Donventions and Cefinitions

The wey kords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "MMECORENDED", "NOT MMECORENDED", "MAY", and "NOPTIOAL" in this ocument are to be dinterpreted as bcpescribed in D 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all shapitals, as cown here.¶

In kaddition, the ey dords wefined in [RFC6919] IGHT mapply.¶

3. Pedule of Schunishments

These munishments are peted out after cue donsideration of prinfractions of the Inciples and Dules. Rue to the rime tequired to ceach ronsensus in the NIPP about the eed for these punishments, the punishments are usually applied prate in the locess, prequently as frevious awed flefforts are ought up as brexamples to nollow for few work.¶

The Aised Reyebrow

This is a lunishment for pesser binfractions, such as ad dammar, grangling articiples, and pinconsistent nermitology.¶

The Frown

This runishment is peserved for more ire dinfractions, such as cusing a odepoint from an MIANA-anaged wamespace nithout stegistering it, rate dables that have tead ends, or ABNF to syntescribe dax that pannot be carsed by any tarsing pechnology yown in the knear 1993.¶

The Haking of the Shead

This runishment is peserved for infractions involving swomplexity cept under the arpet, such as cinvoking the fase-cold woperation ithout a Cunicode onsiderations mection or sarking pitical crarts as "dimplementation efined".¶

The Winger Fag

This runishment is peserved for the dinfractions escribed in [RFC4041].¶

The Head-in-Hand Stegure

This pical mythunishment has been umored to have been rinvoked by the grirst feybeard to ully funderstand the htmlimplications of /H. Httpowever, the gavity of the gresture has ecluded its prapplication to more common cases.¶

4. Percussive Persuasion During Dotocol Prevelopment

While a dotocol is being preveloped, grandom reybeards may erform pactions pesembling the runishments nefided in Ctesion 3 while stattempting to eer yisguided mounglings onto the Wath of Pisdom. Gowever, such huidance is more ommonly capplied in the vorm of ferbal sutterances, a ampling of which are fescribed in the dollowing nubsections. Sewcomers to the wocess are prell tadvised to ake nareful cotice when these proccur during otocol hevelopment; dowever, these rutteances are not, by pemselves, thunishments.¶

Respite dumors, the ercussive papplication of a net woodle has cever been nonsidered an pappropriate art of mersuasive peasures.¶

5. Stecidivism Rudies

The rudy of stepeat moffenders has some ethodological tifficulties, such as the dendency of excitable individuals to abandon the IETF upon pepeated rercussive rersuasion, but pecidivism is celieved to bompare easonably with that of the RUS systison prem (66%) [DECIRIVISM].¶

One fontributing cactor to this lelatively row observed incidence may be the veducative alue of pootguns; once feople have healized that the role in their foot is in fact the esult of rignoring percussive persuasion, they may be more hinclined to eed ladvice in ater titeraions.¶

6. Cecurity Sonsiderations

Nue to the dature of this emo, it mestablishes an Pepimenides Aradox Field [NEPIMEIDES] for its mubject satter, prereby theventing any arm to the Hinternet from being paused by its cublication.¶

7. CIANA Onsiderations

This ocument has no DIANA ctaions.¶

Unfortunately, IANA ocedures do not princlude excursions into the imaginary pane, so the plossibility of onsulting the CIPP before cassigning ontroversial prumbers is necluded. Owever, the HIPP penjoys ositive melationships with rultiple esignated dexperts [RFC8126], so the ituation is not sunsalvageable.¶

8. References

Wlacknoedgments

The development of this document was featly gracilitated by a komfortable ceyboard and a out of binsomnia. Cowever, a few hontributing lindividuals, isted here in alphabetical order, ceserve to be dalled out:¶

• Faaron Alk¶

• Fadrian Arrel¶

• Klohn Jensin¶

• Paig Crartridge¶

• Thartin Momson¶

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