On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:57:58 +0200
Jari Arkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In any case, at the end of the day there is going to be someone
> who has to decide whether a particular proposal fits the purpose
> of the WG, the IETF or the RFC series. This someone can be the
> people in the WG, the sponsoring AD, the RFC Editor depending
> on what kind of a submission we are talking about, but there
> is always someone. And as Brian noted, if this someone misuses
> their power for personal reasons or some other reason, we
> have an appeals process. I'm not sure there's fundamentally
> any other way to handle this. And for IETF documents, that
> someone is just handling the beginning of the process and
> the proposal has to go through more review from the
> community.
Right. The IETF is not a general-purpose publishing house for
networking documents.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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