Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

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Keith Moore wrote:
>>Nothing like "responsibility to look after the overall technical health of the 
>>Internet" was assigned to the IESG.
> 
> You seem to be forgetting something, Dave.
> 
> Every IETF participant is supposed to use his best engineering judgement
> as to what is best for the Internet as a whole, when making technical 
> decisions.
> 
> You seem to think that every IETF participant _except_ those on IESG
> should do so.   You seem to think that everyone else should be able to
> exercise their judgement but that the IESG should just serve as 
> process facilitators and rubber stamp technical decisions that others
> make.  IMNSHO, that's ridiculous.  We put good technical people on 
> IESG so that they can make good technical decisions.

Keith,

The IESG can still exercise their best engineering judgment as
individuals, as the rest of us do.

The IESG role itself need not incorporate a privileged position from
which to wield that judgement. There's plenty left to do.

Joe


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