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[procon] Re: 2418bis - Document Editor

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 02 July 2026 19:33 UTC

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Our charter says:
    > "making understanding of these processes and procedures" (less)
    > "unwieldy".

Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
    > That is not our charter[1].  I do not know if the Document Editor is
    > part of the “Guidelines for WG adoption”, but it does not seem like it.

I don't see it matters if it's part of WG adoption or not.
Appointing a Document Editor is a WG chair function/privilege.

**Do you disagree?**


It does not seem to well stated in 2418, or 2418bis, and I looked at 2026
just to be sure it wasn't mentioned there.


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