- From: Phil Archer <phil.archer@gs1.org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:21:29 +0000
- To: xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
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Oops sorry, as you can imagine, I sent this to the wrong people. Apologies for inbox noise. Phil Sent from my mobile, please excuse typos and brevity ________________________________ From: Phil Archer <phil.archer@gs1.org> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 9:46:41 AM To: xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>; Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> Cc: w3c-ac-forum <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>; team-social-chairs@w3.org <chairs@w3.org>; w3t-archive <w3t-archive@w3.org>; public-new-work@w3.org <public-new-work@w3.org> Subject: Re: Proposed Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC) (Call for Review) Thanks Nick! Sent from my mobile, please excuse typos and brevity ________________________________ From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 9:20:40 AM To: xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org> Cc: w3c-ac-forum <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>; team-social-chairs@w3.org <chairs@w3.org>; w3t-archive <w3t-archive@w3.org>; public-new-work@w3.org <public-new-work@w3.org> Subject: Re: Proposed Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC) (Call for Review) Dear AC Reps and editors of the CEPC, I tried to submit the following answer on behalf of Mozilla to https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/CEPC2020/ but apparently got an error upon submitting, so am submitting via text instead. Please include our response in the archive of official responses. https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/CEPC2020/results I hope you are able to consider the suggested changes. Thanks, Tantek Çelik Mozilla AC Representative. =================== I, Tantek Çelik W3C Advisory Committee representative for Mozilla > > --------------------------------- > Decision for adopting updated W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct > > ---- > Regarding the proposal to supersede the 2015 CEPC, my organization: > > * ( ) supports adoption as the W3C CEPC as is. * (*) suggests changes, but supports adoption as the W3C CEPC whether or not the changes are adopted (your details below). * ( ) suggests changes, and only supports adoption as the W3C CEPC if the changes are adopted [Formal Objection] (your details below). * ( ) suggests the document not be adopted as the W3C CEPC [Formal Objection] (your details below). * ( ) abstains from this review. > > > --------------------------------- > Other Comments > > ---- > Please add here any other comments you have. > > Comments: The proposed revision to the CEPC is a significant improvement over the 2015 CEPC. We suggest the following brief changes, and will file issues (or pull requests where the changes are clear) accordingly. 1. In section 4 (https://www.w3.org/2020/05/CEPC#Reporting), change all occurrences of "law enforcement" to "emergency services". There is a long history of incidents where contacting law enforcement inevitably results in physical harm up to and including death directly due to the actions of law enforcement, especially towards minorities. In the past two months there has been increasing awareness of these incidents, especially in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United_States), and other countries as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality#Examples). As a code that seeks to minimize and reduce harms, it behooves us as W3C to acknowledge these ongoing harms and strike all mentions of "law enforcement" from our code of conduct, with the possible exception of adding an explicit mention of the unacceptability of contacting (or threatening to contact) law enforcement as a method of causing harm (AKA weaponizing, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_birdwatching_incident), bullying, or even just expressing discomfort about an individual acting "suspiciously" (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain). 2. In section 3.2 (https://www.w3.org/2020/05/CEPC#unacceptablebehavior), add "caste" to the first list item, perhaps between "ethnicity, nationality", e.g. replace that with "ethnicity, caste, nationality". We explicitly list "caste" in a similar list in the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/) and believe the CEPC would also benefit from this explicit addition. 3. In section 6. (https://www.w3.org/2020/05/CEPC#glossary), the definition of "Sexual harassment" seems oddly narrowly scoped to "employment", "work performance", or "working environment". This narrowness in scope seems to be in conflict with the much broader contexts of W3C related interactions, e.g. as listed in section 1 (https://www.w3.org/2020/05/CEPC#introduction). For example, interactions in W3C contexts between individuals who have no employment or direct work or work environment relationship should still be covered. In addition this definition (with id="dfn-sexually-harass") does not appear to be linked or referenced from elsewhere in the document. We don't have a specific suggestion for how to improve this definition and leave it up to the editors to do so. Thank you again for a greatly improved CEPC. We hope you consider our suggested changes as minor enough to be made as part of this update. Thanks for your consideration. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY / DISCLAIMER: The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are not to be regarded as a contractual offer or acceptance from GS1 (registered in Belgium). If you are not the addressee, or if this has been copied or sent to you in error, you must not use data herein for any purpose, you must delete it, and should inform the sender. GS1 disclaims liability for accuracy or completeness, and opinions expressed are those of the author alone. GS1 may monitor communications. Third party rights acknowledged. 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