On 11/29/12 10:06 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: > I believe that one is the case, though others can weigh in with > opinions as well. Yes, we could change our documentation to > explicitly say that this particular decision is a management choice. > But I'll caution you against trying to do that in general: we have a > million things that are unspecified and should be unspecified and left > to management choice. Trying to find all of those and explicitly say > so will be a frustrating exercise, and one that won't have a lot of > value in the end. In general, we specify what we want to specify, and > what's left is up to judgment and management. Hear, hear (and I feel pretty strongly about this). There are correction mechanisms if someone feels that a process has gone off the rails and I prefer to rely on those than trying to micromanage IETF process. Right now it seems to be the case that keeping much unspecified and having strong chairs is a better use of limited resources than trying to shove everything into a box. I'll note that it seems possible that overspecifying process could potentially cause more protests rather than fewer. Melinda