Re: [IAB] IAB appeal for arpa assignment

[Timothy Mcsweeney <[e-mail]>]

> On 08/04/2020 12:53 AM Timothy Mcsweeney <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok thank you Wes.
> 
> I know that the members of the IESG and the IAB are highly skilled seasoned professionals and in a group they are a formidable bunch. I was wondering, what help is available to appellants like myself who are basically noobs to the entire process?
> 
> Tim
> > On August 4, 2020 at 12:29 AM Wes Hardaker < [e-mail]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Timothy,
> > 
> > > In the IESG appeal I listed every decision I could think of but this time I
> > > would like to avoid that. There are some decisions that the IESG made that
> > > I may be unaware of making it difficult for me to pick. Section 8 of RFC
> > > 2026 says"
> > > 
> > > Each of the organizations involved in the development and approval of
> > > Internet Standards shall publicly announce, and shall maintain a
> > > publicly accessible record of, every activity in which it engages, to
> > > the extent that the activity represents the prosecution of any part
> > > of the Internet Standards Process.
> > > 
> > > Can you please post the previous draft(s) of the final IESG decisions
> > > and any other activity engaged in for that final decision of my appeal?
> > The IAB does not have access to "previous draft(s)" of documents
> > authored by the IESG. If they do exist, we wouldn't know about it or
> > have them unless they were provided to us [they weren't, as far as I
> > know].
> > 
> > [speaking for myself, not for the whole of the IAB] Although I'm the IAB
> > liason to the IESG, I am not a core member of the IESG and thus was not
> > privy to the conversations about your appeal to the IESG. Thus, I must
> > base any conclusions I have on your desire for an appeal to the IAB
> > based on the information I can gather, which would certainly include the
> > IESG's response regarding the appeal and, hopefully, your view of
> > where and why that response was incorrect.
> > 
> > --
> > Wes Hardaker
> > USC/ISI