On two specific points: On 11-Mar-20 12:55, Nico Williams wrote: .... > Q: How many appeals have there been, and how many have succeeded? Officially, the history is at: https://www.ietf.org/standards/process/appeals/ https://www.iab.org/appeals/ I think a lot of the responses are midway between "success" and "failure". > But perhaps we can do post-mortems as a lighter-weight relief process, On the surface that's an attractive idea, but if it is to be taken seriously it would need just about as much work as an appeal. Brian