My thoughts about the problems of the IETF
Eric Rosen
erosen at cisco.com
Thu Apr 17 11:30:05 CEST 2003
Brian> In terms of fairness, I think that is exactly why we put in the
Brian> checks and balances that exist in the appeals, NomCom and recall
Brian> processes.
You are greatly overestimating the efficacy of the appeals process. It is
possible for an AD (or the IESG as a whole) to make decisions which are
arbitrary, capricious, ignorant, prejudiced,or just blatantly political, and
as long as there is no formal violation of process, there is no way to
appeal.
The appeals process works better at the lower levels, it does seem to be
possible to appeal a WG chair's abuse of power by complaining to the AD, at
least as long as the abuse of power is not supported by the AD.
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