Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

[[e-mail] (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>

    >> The IAOC is requesting feedback from the community concerning a
    >> vacancy that the IAOC feels is not adequately covered by existing IETF
    >> rules.

    > I'm not sure why the IAOC thinks that the recall procedure shouldn't be
    > followed.

Because it's a fairly lengthy, complex, and effort-consuming, process to use
in this kind of case - rather like using a pile-driver to crack a nut?

I hear you, and understand the concern about ignoring established procedures,
but at the same time, calling for a hum from the IETF community is sufficient
to get the _entire procedure_ changed, a far more consequential act, so
asking for a hum to temporarily bypass them seems to me to be acting in the
general spirit.

And of course we do need to update our procedures so that if this ever
happens again, we don't face the choice of rolling out the pile-driver, or
proceeding in an ad hoc way, but that's a separate point.

	Noel