> I do not believe that policies about IETF meetings actually require or > should require IETF consensus. The IESG runs the IETF meeting. The > IESG has access to confidential information that would not be > appropriate to share with the IETF as a whole. That's the job we > appoint them to do. this is the 'we know better than you' mantra of authoritarian governments. the iesg should have _extremely_ little confidential information. randy
