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	Title		: Narrowing IESG Process Flexibilities
	Author(s)	: J. Klensin
	Filename	: draft-klensin-process-planb-00.txt
	Pages		: 7
	Date		: 2004-2-9
	
One basic model for IETF operations is that the IESG is given general
guidance in specific procedural documents but sufficient discretion
and flexibility to adapt the rules and make new ones in order to make
the IETF work smoothly.  This model underlies a number of reform
proposals, including recent ones from this author.  However, there
has been an undercurrent of suspicion from some members of the
community -- suspicion that the IESG is abusive of that discretion
and cannot be trusted.  Those suspicions have, to some extent, been
reinforced by questions about IESG-adopted procedures that seem to
contradict procedures approved by the community and documented in
BCPs.  The community cannot move forward with models based on both
trust and distrust in the IESG's ability, and level of
responsibility, to do its job.  In an attempt to focus this part of
the debate, this document proposes to dramatically narrow IESG's
scope of authority and discretion.

In particular, it proposes to move the IESG, procedurally, onto an

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