Contributor - not co-author - but also with 6 drafts that have normative references to the draft in question that could not proceed if this stalled Andrew On 03/03/2020, 00:44, "ietf on behalf of Sander Steffann" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of sander@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, > I have no information about the situation but I do not understand why an AD would be declaring consensus in any case - > that is normally the responsibility of WG chairs. see RFC 2418 section 3.3 The only active/available WG chair was a co-author of this draft. Cheers, Sander