@djb@mastodon.cr.yp.to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange @rsalz@ioc.exchange I don't know for 2012, but from 2013 on a large number of IETF participants were absolutely convinced of being under attack. It was fairly obvious that some IETF participants were either willing enablers of these attacks, or "useful idiots". But we don't know which ones, and we quickly realized that launching a witch-hunt would be very destructive, and that the safest path was to keep discussions strictly technical.