Let me suggest that the rules be quite simple:
1. A Discuss may be asserted only when it pertains to a normative concern that
involves the viability of the specification.
not reasonable. even merely informative text can cause interoperability problems if it is wrong or misleading.
2. The AD raising the Discuss must post the details of their concern to the
mailing list targeted to that specification and must provide clear direction
as to how to cure the problem. Failing the ability to provide the detail
about how to fix the specification, the AD must engage in a dialogue that has
the goal of specifying that detail.
not reasonable. it's fine for an AD to provide suggestions as to how to resolve an issue, but it's not the AD's job to actually resolve issues that need to be sorted out at length either within the WG or between that WG and other parties.
In order to deal with the issue of a pocket veto, whereby the AD is
intractable but maintains the veto, there needs to be a mechanism to force
review of the Discuss, either to assert that, indeed, it involves a valid
showstopper (failure) of the specification or that it can be ignored.
such a mechanism already exists.
Keith
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