On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:20:04PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > would be wrong. The idea here is that applying _punitive_ action (such > as removal from a position) retroactively is not "fair,"
Oh, for heaven's sake. This is nothing to do with punishment. This is a straightforward administrative problem. Turning this into an opportunity to exercise a heavyweight and in fact punitive process would be an injustice. If the IETF has wound itself into such bureaucratic knots that we can't just make an exceptional decision in exceptional circumstances, we are in much worse trouble than I thought. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com
