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

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> Keith,
>
> The IESG can still exercise their best engineering judgment as
> individuals, as the rest of us do.
>
> The IESG role itself need not incorporate a privileged position from
> which to wield that judgement. There's plenty left to do.

Joe,

The IESG has several duties that are defined in RFC 2026 and other 
documents.  These duties include using engineering judgment to determine 
whether documents meet criteria for standards track, or whether to bless 
certain kinds of protocol extensions.   All this notion of "privilege" 
misses the point - which is that we cannot ensure document or protocol 
quality without having some set of people decide whether or not a 
proposal is good enough.

If IESG people were to personally benefit from their exercise of this 
"privilege" you'd have a valid gripe.  But I don't recall ever seeing 
this happen.  If it does happen, I don't think it happens very often.

Keith

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