This is a repository of guidelines, procedures, and templates used by the IETF Moderators team (formerly called Sergeants-at-Arms(SAA)). The goal of the Moderators team is to foster an environment of digntity, decency, and respect on ietf@ietf.org where everyone feels welcome to contribute.

While RFC 9245 creates the role of Moderators for the ietf@ietf.org mailing list, the guidance for inappropriate postings and the actions to be taken are not well-defined. This repository aims to address this lack of clarity.

• Standard Operating Procedures outlines how and when the Moderators engages with inappropriate postings, including escalation paths.
• Templates that engagement messages from the Moderators adhere to.
• A definition of Uncivil Commentary the Moderators follows.

This set of documents is considered a work-in-progress, and is expected to evolve to meet the needs of the IETF.

The content of this repository was influenced by the Contributor Covenant, the Django Code of Conduct, the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines and How to Respond to Code of Conduct Reports.

The IETF Moderators team maintain the statistics of its actions at Stats.