On 26/10/2012 02:22, Richard Barnes wrote:
>>> would be wrong. The idea here is that applying _punitive_ action (such
>>> as removal from a position) retroactively is not "fair,"
>> Oh, for heaven's sake. This is nothing to do with punishment. This
>> is a straightforward administrative problem. Turning this into an
>> opportunity to exercise a heavyweight and in fact punitive process
>> would be an injustice. If the IETF has wound itself into such
>> bureaucratic knots that we can't just make an exceptional decision in
>> exceptional circumstances, we are in much worse trouble than I
>> thought.
>>
>> A
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> +1
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> +(much more than 1, actually)
What he said. Common sense should prevail. We can fix *this* tiny gap in
our procedures in due course, but we will need to apply common sense again
the next time we find a tiny gap.
Brian