On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 3:14 PM Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 27.05.2026 00:06, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > I don't believe that this is in fact true. It's already the case that the > relationship between the author and the text is different in different > streams because in some streams the author is largely the decision maker of > the content (the ISE) and in others their job is to reflect some form of > consensus (IETF stream). > > It is. The stream owner in the end decides whether the content can be > published. The author decides what text appears in the content to be > subject to approval. That is consistent across all streams. No one can > force an author to change text. > "subject to approval" is doing a lot of work here.
Yes, nobody can literally make the author write something they don't, but the WG (or more usually the chairs) can replace the author with one who will write what they want, and as a practical matter this means that authors write text that matches consensus, even if they don't agree with it. -Ekr
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