On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 09:06:15AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > (Front posting to avoid a TL;DR.) > > It's already the case that if the AD considers that the changes after Last Call and IESG review are substantive, a second Last Call can (and should) be issued. Isn't that sufficient? It does rely on the AD's judgment, of course, and should probably be done more often. I think that the trend in the last couple years of my time on the IESG was towards doing it more often. In the face of data on the time documents spend in various states over their lifecycle, the extra few weeks delay is usually worth it for the added confidence in the new text. I'm happy to leave it as a judgment call alongside giving some guidance to the IESG to err on the side of doing another Last Call. A strict rule has an unfortunate failure mode of making it fairly easy to get stuck in a loop of repeated Last Calls for increasingly minor changes... -Ben
