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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf