Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

[David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>]

Dave Crocker wrote:
> > You seem to think that every IETF participant _except_ those on IESG
> > should do so.   You seem to think that everyone else should be able to
> > exercise their judgement but that the IESG should just serve as 
> > process facilitators and rubber stamp technical decisions that others
> > make.  
>
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought the exercise of IETF judgement relied 
> on rough consensus.  Having a subset of folks impose their own, personal 
> preferences -- oh, sorry, their judgement -- is not using rough 
> consensus to make ietf decisions.

Authors of RFCs that set up IANA registries are free to not use "IESG Approval"
as a criterion for allocations, or to allow alternative criteria. In fact
RFC 2780 does allow alternatives, including IETF Concensus. The sponsors of
this IPv6 option chose not to use them.

--
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>


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