On 24-May-19 21:50, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 2:15 AM S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sm%2Bietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > As a comment about IETF process, it was pointed out to me that a > Working Group Chair cannot author drafts within his/her working > group. That does not seem to be a problem for other Working Group > Chairs; some of them have been authored drafts in their working > groups. That can create a perception that the rule, if there is one, > is applied in different ways to different people. > > > It's not quite clear what the gravamen of your complaint is here.. To the > best of my knowledge, no such rule exists. Obviously, you might have > been misinformed, but I'm not sure what you're hoping for as a result. There's certainly no rule, but there have been many cases where an AD has raised the issue of potential conflict of interest - if a WG Chair is a lead author for an important WG draft, that person can certainly not make the consensus judgement. And I know that some ADs have been more insistent on this point than others, especially if both co-chairs are also protagonists of the draft. Brian
