Re: Qualitative Analysis of IETF and IESG trends (Re: Measuring IETF and IESG trends)

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Lakshminath:

Consider a hypothetical case: a large WG has strong consensus on one of their documents, they believe it is within the charter's scope and think that the document is in the best interest of the Internet. The WG chairs assess the consensus, and forward the document to the shepherding AD. The shepherding AD takes one last look, determines everything is in order and sends it to last call. A few people on the IETF Discussion list think that the proposed specification is about to doom the Internet. A few others who have not even read the document agree based on emails. Most of the WG members are either not on the IETF list or choose to stay silent.

The shepherding AD considers those comments, thinks that those issues have been addressed already and puts the document on the IESG agenda. All other ADs (except one) think that everything is fine and vote No Objection. One AD agrees with the few people on the IETF Discussion list and decides to put a DISCUSS and proceeds to hack the document. In the current model, other than the very few exceptions cited recently, the AD gets what he or she wants for the most part. It is plausible that AD may do this even if no one else identified a problem.

Actually, this sounds very similar to the case where an override vote was almost used. Scheduling the override vote was sufficient for the DISCUSS-holding AD to ask for a strawpoll, and based on those results, the DISCUSS-holding AD cleared the DISCUSS position.

Russ
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