Re: IESG powers - was: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> On 21:25 25/08/2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer said:
>
> > If the IESG were to refuse to publish the Sender-ID document as it is,
> > it would not "police" everything: anyone can still do what he wants on
> > the Internet.
> >
> > The only thing than the IETF can do is to "bless" or not the document,
>
>
> Stephane,
> just a remark here. In the RFC 3066bis Last Call case the IETF has the 
> capacity not only to "police" but to "impose" and "force". This is the 
> case when a memo documents a IANA registry. In the case of a standard 
> track memo, there can be an appeal before it is imposed. It seems not in 
> the case of a BCP.

Wrong. IESG approvals of a standards track draft or of a BCP are equally
subject to appeal within two months.

   Brian


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