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Re: Updated IESG Statement "IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream"

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 08 May 2021 13:54 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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Subject: Re: Updated IESG Statement "IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream"
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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Does the IESG plan to catch up on old reported errata that have never been processed?

    > There are three here for example:
    > https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc6275, as much as 4 years
    > old. There may be a lot more lurking.

We need to fix the tooling to delegate to WG chairs to propose actions.
Maybe we want ADs to confirm (like milestones), but I don't think we'll ever
deal with backlog until we can easily keep up with current efforts.

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