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Re: [rtcweb] Protesting the QoS document decision

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 19 December 2013 17:22 UTC

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On 12/19/2013 8:12 AM, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> This is clearly a failure by us chairs to ensure
> sufficient transparency and a venue to timely protest that decision.


A failure in transparency is actually the lesser offense, though lesser 
does not mean minor.

The deeper error is that the chairs felt they had authority to make a 
decision that really belonged to the working group.

This occurrence seems to be an exemplar of a pattern.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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