On 19 Sep 2017, at 4:22, Carsten Bormann wrote:
My disappointment is in that these considerations apparently were
overruled by trying to please everyone.
This is not representative for the IETF that I want to work in.
The drafts leading to the document that specified this action, RFC 7994,
was discussed on an active mailing list with lots of members. The IESG
asked, on this list, for people to review the set of documents that
included this one and asked people to send input to the IAB before the
drafts were turned into RFCs.
Maybe the IETF that you want to work in doesn't let the IAB publish its
own documents, even after soliciting review on this list, but that is
the IETF you have been working in for as long as we have known each
other.
--Paul Hoffman