Brian, Richard, others,
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
+1
+(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.
For what it is worth, I agree with this as well.
Jari