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Re: [Gendispatch] Thoughts on draft-carpenter-gendispatch-draft-adoption

Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Thu, 23 July 2020 23:55 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:54:48 +1000
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] Thoughts on draft-carpenter-gendispatch-draft-adoption
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, at 03:20, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Chairs *ARE* allowed to do this according to the current guidelines.
...
> It's something that I want to preserve.

Could you say a little more about why?  For me, chairs have significant, but indirect, power over what is adopted.  Why allow specific, direct power?

As Joel says, adoption is a strong statement that has an established meaning.  For me, going directly against that requires similarly strong justification, precedent or no.

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