Margaret notes It seems strange, IMO, to be so worried about DoS attacks through the appeal process we've been using this process for several years for IESG and WG decisions and haven't experienced that sort of problem... the current appeals process does not apply to commercial decisions such as the awarding of a contract so whatever experience we already have is not relevent to what we might experience under the new process (imo) Scott _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf