On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 05:17:00PM +0100, Stewart Bryant wrote: > On 25/04/2019 17:04, Nico Williams wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Adrian Farrel wrote: > > > Nico, you over-stretch the "normality" of the process, IMHO. > > > > A bit, but the point is that if you cannot get an AD to sponsor the I-D > > without a WG, well, then you still have that path. > > > > Having to go through a WG is very much a possible and legitimate > > outcome. > > Well, that is not the only path. > > Procedurally the authors could consider initiating an appeal or even perhaps > a recall over the matter. I did not know that an (all) AD's decision not to sponsor could be appealed. I don't see how a recall petition over the ADs' refusal to sponsor could be anything other than frivolous.
