IESG procedures (Re: what is a problem)

[Fred Baker]

At 08:56 AM 11/27/2002 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>What is the harm in writing down the current policies and procedures of 
>the IESG?

the historical concern has been that some of our more colorful contributors 
would then want a detailed tally of the vote, and would then go after an AD 
that seemed to "not like them" (which might be for all sorts of good 
reasons like "they have ideas that don't work" or "... and they don't want 
to fix them", which are surprisingly common cases) in the nomcom or 
otherwise make trouble. The last thing the IESG has historically wanted to 
do was recreate itself as a whipping boy.