Re: [Rfced-future] Consensus check: Issue 22 – new stream for RFC Editor

[Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>]

On 6/25/2021 1:19 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> If the IAB retains the right to rewrite or refuse the documents from 
> this process, then I do not see what we have accomplished with this 
> entire circus ???

And to continue that thought, the IAB may change what it does with the 
IAB stream at any time for any reason. Effectively a veto.

-1 - do not run publications of this type through the IAB process.


Mike


>
> Yours,
> Joel
>
> On 6/25/2021 1:16 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
>>
>> On 6/24/2021 1:46 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 2021-6-24, at 7:57, Brian E Carpenter 
>>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> As somebody else said, this stream by its very nature is going to 
>>>> be special and even self-referential. The notion we have of a 
>>>> stream being a client of the RFC Series just doesn't apply, so the 
>>>> normal notion of a stream manager doesn't apply**. But surely we 
>>>> need someone to act as progress chaser and nit resolver when a 
>>>> document has left the RSAB and is inside the RPC? And who will that 
>>>> be if it's not the RSEA?
>>> I still remain unconvinced that we even need a new stream. I may be 
>>> in the rough, but I would be OK with using the IAB stream and 
>>> leaving the IAB a role here.
>>
>> +1. That seems a much simpler solution than creating yet another 
>> rarely used structure.
>>
>> -- Christian Huitema
>>
>