Re: Terms used in rules-update-07

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

> I don't see how "IESG approved" can be used to substitute for "IETF 
> produced" unless we are going to go back and modify 2026 to extend the 
> IESG's authority to decide things without any contact with the community 
> other than the wisdom and intuitions of the IESG membership.  Jorge, it 
> would be different if you said "any document that went through IETF Last 
> Call and was subsequently approved" was an IETF document.  But I just 
> don't think there is and foundation for equating "IESG approved" with 
> "approved in the IETF" and hence part of the standards process. It 
> actually seems to me that such an interpretation is fraught with dangers.

Frankly I think this is splitting hairs. IESG approval is the last stage
prior to RFC publication for documents originating in the IETF (barring
a successful appeal). So it's the externally visible sign that the IETF
process has completed for a given document.

   Brian

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