Re: [sidr] WG acceptance call for draft-ymbk-rpki-grandparenting

John Leslie <john@jlc.net> Sat, 10 November 2012 22:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] WG acceptance call for draft-ymbk-rpki-grandparenting
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Brian Dickson <brian.peter.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:
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 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 11:42:15 -0500
> 
> If a draft is accepted in its current state, then any promises by the
> authors to make changes are much like promises by politicians during
> election campaigns - not worth the paper they are written on.

   While technically true:

1) if the WGCs let this happen, it's an abuse of power. At adoption as a
   WG draft, authors "relinquish change control" and different persons
   must be appointed document editors if authors aren't OK with that.

2) nothing goes to IESG without consensus at WG LastCall.

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John Leslie <john@jlc.net>