On 22/12/2022 22:26, Pete Resnick wrote:
(Even though he doesn't believe me, I learned much from Stephen Farrell during our time on the IESG together, including that absolute procedural rules are silly in the IETF; you need flexibility.)
Harumph! :-) It's clearly untrue that I've ever been a source of learning (an inability to teach all the kids being my $dayjob;-), but I will agree with Pete, that there's a fairly well-worn path of ADs pushing good ideas of the right thing to do having not prospered as well as they might have. So I'd say that it's a good bit better for ADs to stand back some, from especially what they consider really good ideas and let other folks who are exercised by the problem-at-hand take the lead. OTOH, in those rare cases where everyone thinks 'X' needs to be done, but hasn't been, an AD pushing things along with a smattering of aggression can help people get to where they wanted to go anyway, but hadn't yet. Cheers, S. PS: I've no clue at all about congestion control so this is purely a mention-prompted meta-comment sent on arrival home from the usual Thursday pub outing:-)
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