RFC Editor doc approvals (RE: [mpowr] Mailing List Management)

changing the subject, since this has gone far away from list management...

--On 24. desember 2003 00:13 -0500 John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:

> 	* At the time 2026 was written, the RFC Editor timeout
> 	for IESG review of an independent submission document
> 	was two weeks.  If the IESG needed more time, it was
> 	required to ask for it from the RFC Editor, typically
> 	specifying a reason.  And the IESG approval mechanism
> 	was a call for objections with an internal timeout.
> 	Now, the timeout is four weeks, the IESG apparently
> 	routinely simply ignores that timeout, and the approval
> 	process requires a formal vote and writeup.   Is this
> 	progress?

corrections:

1) as far as I remember, the rfc editor never did anything when the timeout 
expired. not even when it was 2 weeks.
2) the IESG approval mechanism at the moment is "one (shepherding) AD has 
to have read the document and put it on the IESG agenda, no objection must 
be raised when he does".
3) no formal writeup is needed for approval.

the appearance of "ballots" for these items in the tracker recently is 
because it's easier to reuse the mechanism than to be sure we remember who 
had the objection and why, not because we wish to add more formality or 
delay to the process.

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