On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
No disagreement, but sometimes those things don't work, especially
when ADs end up with enough WGs that it is hard to pay special
attention to any of them and (perhaps as a result) the IESG responds
to issues/problems by saying "we trust our WG Chairs" rather than
intervening or helping.
I would go further than this and point out that BCP 25 says, generally, that WG chairs are [to be] given quite a bit of latitude regarding working group operation. We're expected to trust them, or replace them if we can't.
-MSK, ART AD, solo