On 04/20/2007 08:35 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > It seems fairly clear in RFC 2418 section 6.1: > > "The Chair has the responsibility and the authority to make decisions, > on behalf of the working group, regarding all matters of working > group process and staffing, in conformance with the rules of the > IETF. The AD has the authority and the responsibility to assist in > making those decisions at the request of the Chair or when > circumstances warrant such an intervention." > > So the AD *does* have authority *when circumstances warrant*, but > only on matters of process and staffing. I'm sure Jeff Schiller didn't > mean any more than that - this rule doesn't allow an AD to take > technical decisions unilaterally, but does allow an AD to make a > consensus call if for some reason the WG Chairs can't do so. (And > all subject to the regular appeal process, of course.) My recollection is that Jeff made a technical decision and announced it, because everyone agreed the process was deadlocked. I don't recall that he ever "took over" for a WG chair, but there was agreement that the WG was stuck and a decision was required. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf