--On Friday, January 25, 2013 16:31 +0100 Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John, > > On 1/25/13 4:27 PM, John C Klensin wrote: >>>> a WG can >>>> skip WG LC if they think its not needed. >>> ??? >>> >>> When was the last time that happened? Did it require a >>> consensus call to determine? >> Chair discretion [... and five of paragraphs of text] > > None of which answered my above questions. When was the last > time chairs USED that discretion?! I didn't answer because I don't know. It isn't something I've tried to track and my first-hand experience is limited because I've tried to avoid WG Chair roles in favor of advising for the last decade or so. The times when I didn't do a WG LC are both long ago and probably before much of the community assumed they were required. We did short ones in EAI, not because they were required but because we were trying to encourage additional internal reviews and to verify that any issues that were missed were identified. But that WG was quite difficult in terms of getting explicit reviews and discussion so WG LC was used as a tool to address known problems. john