Hi Pete, John,
At 07:25 PM 16-03-2024, Pete Resnick wrote:
But this seems to me too high a burden. If a chair wants to make an
exception, they should be empowered to do so and not make this
depend on an AD OK, particularly right before a meeting where ADs
have lots of other things to deal with. And if a chair or an AD is
not directly involved, there is no reason an author shouldn't be
able to submit a document that has nothing to do with a WG.
The WG Chairs are allowed to make an exception. If I remember
correctly, the AD may have to "push a button" to release the I-D from
the queue.
We are using the accident of an old set of circumstances to drive
procedures rather that discussing what we really want out of the
tooling. Please let's stop doing that.
Yes.
Some of the side effects of the accident of history is that the
two-weeks no-I-D window prevents non-WG I-D from being posted and the
I-D flood at the beginning of the meeting week.
(During a chat last night, Barry reminded me that when a change was
proposed several years ago, some chairs objected to the change
because they did not want the responsibility to allow exceptions and
instead wanted it to be an AD override so they could claim
powerlessness to insistent authors. I find such an argument a sign
of complete dysfunction.)
It's a bit politically unfriendly to take such a decision.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
