Re: Status of this memo

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 4/27/21 5:54 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

>> emphatically disagree, and I believe that's a particularly harmful
>> concept to promote.
> Could you elaborate more on how your position relates to the BCP 25
> description of "Document Editor"?  §6.3 of RFC 2418 has:
>
>     Most IETF working groups focus their efforts on a document, or set of
>     documents, that capture the results of the group's work.  A working
>     group generally designates a person or persons to serve as the Editor
>     for a particular document.  The Document Editor is responsible for
>     ensuring that the contents of the document accurately reflect the
>     decisions that have been made by the working group.

In my experience WGs have often accepted the original 
author(s)/editor(s) of a document as the Document Editor, and done so 
without much (if any) formality.   I think it mostly works

I'm not sure what this has to do, however, with the bit of the reply 
that you quoted.

Keith