On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 11:54:59AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Here's a thought experiment. > > Update the standards process such that the approval of Proposed Standard > RFCs, after an IETF last call including some specified cross-area review > requirements, is done by the WG consensus process with the consent of the AD . > > Why would that work? Because it now incents the WG chairs by making them, > in effect, where the buck stops. So the WG chairs and AD (typically > a committee of three) will feel the obligation to get everything > right. And it scales. So, no more IESG review? What would we need the IESG for anymore? It would be gone, I guess? Sure, it will scale better. But quality will suffer. > [...]. So the WG chairs and AD (typically a committee of three) [...] Typically one of the ADs is uninvolved with a WG for which the other is responsible, so that would be a committee of two, not three. Nico --
