Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

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

Bob,

> First, I must request that the Internet Draft be retracted in its 
> present form.  Section 4
> contains a direct quote from one of my messages.  However, the quoted 
> sentence was taken
> brazenly out of context; its sense is quite the opposite of the sense of 
> my original
> message. This is intolerable.  That kind of behavior may get you elected 
> in the US ;-)
> but it does not belong in the IETF.

Please take that up directly with the author. We don't 'retract' I-Ds
but we certainly update them.
...
> How DID it get last called, by the way?  If I write up a arbitrary 
> process experiment,
> will the IESG automatically last call it?  Yummy.

No. It requires an AD (Bill Fenner in this case) who is willing to
shepherd the draft. The IESG as a whole doesn't normally review
drafts until after the Last Call has ended - that's why we have
Last Calls.

    Brian

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