On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 7:59 AM Nico Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 06:16:28AM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM Nico Williams <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > If the code points already exist then why can’t we just follow
> Richard
> > > Barnes’ proposal:
> > >
> > > Because there was a concensus call on adoption, and the WG chairs
> called
> > > the consensus as being in favor of adoption.  There have been appeals,
> > > and the appeals did not succeed (I'm not inviting a sub-thread about
> > > that, just stating the current state of play).
> > >
> > > I argued against adoption.  But given that it was adopted, publication
> > > can't be held up by a desire for a different outcome to the adoption
> > > call.
> >
> > As a matter of process, this is simply untrue. WGs need consensus for the
> > document at the time of publication, notwithstanding the outcome of the
> > adoption call. The chairs have some power to structure the argument
> > to rule out repeated discussion of questions that have been asked and
> > answered, but at the end of the day, documents need consensus to proceed.
>
> Fair.  I assumed (and assume) that the chairs would not want to revisit
> the previous consensus call unless something new comes up, so my take is
> that if the WG chose to adopt the work, then barring new arguments and/
> or data the WGLC should not be held up by disagreements over adoption.
>

It's not a chair decision. If, for instance, there's not consensus to
progress
a document to the IESG, for whatever reason and whatever happened
before, the document can't progress.

-Ekr
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