On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 26.05.2026 21:58, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
>
> Second, I do not believe that the Editorial stream is an appropriate place
> to set this kind of policy. Ignoring questions about stream specificity, I
> think it's clear that there are substantive questions of policy here which
> should be resolved by IETF Consensus (or whatever process is appropriate to
> the Streams).
>
> The IESG can actually seek that consensus as part of the RSAB approval
> process, but beyond that,
>
They can, but even if the IESG was persuaded that there was not consensus,
that would not be sufficient to block it, because a single CONCERN is not
sufficient to prevent approval.


> THIS procedure is entirely open to the rough consensus process.
>
It's open to *a* rough consensus process, but not to the IETF rough
consensus process.


>   That's by design.  Your design, I might add, as you not only were part
> of the consensus that created 9280, you drove it.
>
Yes, and I think that it is a good process for the limited domain for which
it was intended, but IMO this question is outside that domain.

-Ekr
-- 
rswg mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]

Reply via email to