Re: Question about pre-meeting document posting deadlines for the IESG and the community

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Pete, John,
At 07:25 PM 16-03-2024, Pete Resnick wrote:
>But this seems to me too high a burden. If a chair wants to make an 
>exception, they should be empowered to do so and not make this 
>depend on an AD OK, particularly right before a meeting where ADs 
>have lots of other things to deal with. And if a chair or an AD is 
>not directly involved, there is no reason an author shouldn't be 
>able to submit a document that has nothing to do with a WG.

The WG Chairs are allowed to make an exception.  If I remember 
correctly, the AD may have to "push a button" to release the I-D from 
the queue.

>We are using the accident of an old set of circumstances to drive 
>procedures rather that discussing what we really want out of the 
>tooling. Please let's stop doing that.

Yes.

Some of the side effects of the accident of history is that the 
two-weeks no-I-D window prevents non-WG I-D from being posted and the 
I-D flood at the beginning of the meeting week.

>(During a chat last night, Barry reminded me that when a change was 
>proposed several years ago, some chairs objected to the change 
>because they did not want the responsibility to allow exceptions and 
>instead wanted it to be an AD override so they could claim 
>powerlessness to insistent authors. I find such an argument a sign 
>of complete dysfunction.)

It's a bit politically unfriendly to take such a decision.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy