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[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: Complaint to chairs regarding false claim of consensus to issue an RFC for draft-ietf-tls-mldsa

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From: "Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL" <uri@ll.mit.edu>
To: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
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> But all that is to say you still have to let the chairs do that part, because that is a meta task.


I co-chaired an IRTF RG group once — it’s been enough for the rest of my IETF/IRTF time. 😃
Wouldn’t think of myself shouldering any part of their workload. 😃


But you seem to repeatedly ignore what I wrote (more than once):


> But there’s a difference between “declaring” a consensus (which you
> kindly attributed to me), and repeating what the Chairs already stated
> a while ago (especially when some people keep contesting their decision).

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