On 10/08/2014 23:18, John Leslie wrote:
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> (a) IMHO it is not appropriate for a WGC to delegate calling consensus;
In general, agreed. But if all WG chairs are conflicted on a draft
(and that can happen, if rarely) then either they have to delegate
"up" to the Area Directors, or if that isn't possible for some
reason, there would be no choice but to ask someone else in the WG
to step in.
> (c) the deterimation of IETF Consensus is not "based on" public review;
> but is always subject to appeal.
It's based on the comments made during public review. I think the word
"public" is important - the consensus call should not be based on
private information. This is made very clear by the definition in
RFC 2026:
"Last-Call - A public comment period used to gage [sic] the level of
consensus about the reasonableness of a proposed standards action."
Brian