On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
My gripe is when an outside AD takes an interest in the work, goes to the f2f meetings, maybe reads the drafts but then waits to IESG evaluation time to DISCUSS their issues. If they know they have a problem(s), it would be *far* better to air that sooner rather than later for all parties concerned.
I agree with the earlier is better than later for comments from anyone, AD or not.
A few interesting side cases on this. Some ADs (more than one actually) recently suggested to a WG that something there were doing was likely to result in in a DISCUSS when it reached the IESG. One of the WG members appealed the IESG trying to manipulate WG consensus. Sort of left me scratching my head on why the WG would not want to know that early but evidently some folks don't.
There have been other working groups where it was very hard to make an argument and get anyone to listen - lots of people just give up and decide to send their comments in IETF LC or not at all. That's really unfortunate but I understand that people have a limited time to go argue about stuff that is not even their work.
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