>If we get to the point where the IESG, the RFC Editor, and the IAB >can't among them work out a sensible compromise (because common sense >has failed), then we have much bigger problems than getting things >published on the Independent Submissions track. +1 We're software and network guys (and gals, of course) which means that we delight in identifying and dealing with edge cases to try and cover every possibility. In human affairs, though, no matter how many cases you try to anticipate, down at the bottom of the list of alternatives you always end with else die(); If we get anywhere near that point, I see little reason to think that the parties involved, who would by then have been arguing for months if not years, would be inclined to follow any procedure at all. For better or worse, the IETF only works because the people involved are more or less reasonable, and nothing we could write down would change that. R's, John PS: Note that this principle applies to any process we might design, not just this one. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf