Re: registries and designated experts

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]>]

* Randy Bush wrote:
>> It seems to me that if an expert reviewer thinks that something will do
>> notable harm, they should decline to make a decision and defer it to the
>> IETF at large
>
>so they are not an expert, they are a rubber stamp?  bs.

Expert reviewers should use their judgement, but that includes whether
their judgement is the right way to resolve some controversy or doubt.

I was thinking the above more in terms of something about an application
that had not been considered or forseen when the registry was created,
in which case an expert reviewer might want to say they think making
a decision is outside the confines of their role and expectations and
assumptions that have been made when the registry was set up and they
were appointed as reviewer, and reviewers should be expected to do that
as appropriate, in principle.
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