Hi. The message below sounds like it perports to be a judgment of consensus and a summary of last call comments ffor a draft being published as IETF stream as a standards action. This document is authored by the IAB. Mark Blanchet, the author of this message is an IAB member. I have a huge process concern with this. I'd expect that the person judging consensus for an IETF last call on a standards action would be a member of the IESG, and especially not one of the authors of the draft, which for an IAB document should include the entire IAB. >From time to time the IESG might delegate that role to a document shepherd who is not a member of the IESG. I'd expect that the IESG member would still ultimately judge consensus, but I can see a shepherd writing up an initial message. I think such a delegation to an IAB member for an IAB document is entirely inappropriate. I'm very uncomfortable with the apparent process here and believe that that to avoid doubt a member of the IESG needs to step in and make their own independent assessment of the last call comments. If my understanding is correct and we've already misstepped here, I think delegation would be inappropriate in this instance. --Sam