Hi, On Mar 3, 2013, at 15:35, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I'm getting at is that this line of argument doesn't scale. > The only solution I see is to replace it by > "Several people on the Y Directorate need to understand X." only if the Y directorate reviews all IDs going through the IESG. Which in itself is a scaling issue. It may work for some topics, but things will fall through the cracks for various reasons. IMO congestion control is important and fundamental enough that the IESG itself needs to have the knowledge. YEs, I'm biased. Lars