On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 6:52 PM Alissa Cooper <alissa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But all of this work will take time. In the interim, we will all continue to feel our way through in an extremely gray area where what seems like an obvious right answer to one person seems like an obvious wrong answer to another. During this interim period, a personal wish of mine would be to not have every message sent by the SAA challenged and adjudicated on ietf@xxxxxxxx.
I wanted to pull out and amplify this point.
We have a system which incorporates a lot of points of escalation for bad decisions (appeals, the main ietf list, plenaries, recalls), and many of those mechanisms have low thresholds for activation. If every action by leadership (and for the sake of this discussion I'm including the SAA in leadership) is escalated, the system will quickly grind to a halt. What keeps it running even as smoothly as it does is that people mostly adhere to the norm of escalating only when really necessary.
-Ekr
