Ted, speaking as an individual. I completely agree that personnel decisions of ADs should be able to be appealed. I actually considered proposing text modifications to make it clear that there might be circumstances where it would be appropriate for the IESG to resolve the conflict. I and I suspect others were working on the "good enough" principle and were trying to get a good enough response produced and not deal with all potentially different future situations. So, I do agree that at least from my standpoint this defect in the response was inadvertent. My preferred way forward would be for IESG members to individually either agree or disagree with our reading of the purpose of the appeals process. I think that if the IESG is in broad agreement on this point, reopening and rewording the response would not be an effective use of time. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf