On 6/12/07 3:17 PM, "Lakshminath Dondeti" <ldondeti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > They are judges of consensus when > appropriate and the consensus better be independently verifiable. In > the end, the entire process works with the IETF Community's consensus > where the IAB and the IESG get to prioritize the work. It seems to me in practice that as long as one group of people is designated as having the authority to block work, approve work, block document publication, approve document publication, and so on, you don't have the kind of level playing field you're describing. I am aware that there are people (possibly a lot of people) who feel that anything that's got "consensus" behind it (for whatever value of consensus) should be considered okay, but I don't recall us (institutional "us") ever having that conversation and resolving that question. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf