On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Jari Arkko <jari.ar...@piuha.net> wrote:
> I'd be supportive of allowing the IESG to make a decision to remove I-Ds > based on court orders, abuse, and other well-justified reasons. > > Such events would be rare, and we should let the IESG do its job of making > decisions based on available information. The statement need not and should > not have an exact algorithm, because we will not be able to determine all the > situations where this might be necessary. There are various abuse cases and > even mistakes by the authors that in some rare cases might be something that > should lead to documents being pulled. The statement should indicate, > however, the reasons (such as showing prior art) why such take-downs should > be rare. +1. I would also like to emphasize that the original statement said that things taken down would be replaced with descriptive tombstones. That is a very important feature of the proposal. --Paul Hoffman
