Individually-submitted proposed RFCs (was: Re: what is a problem)

[Patrik Fältström]

On tisdag, nov 26, 2002, at 13:50 Europe/Stockholm, John C Klensin 
wrote:

> So don't tell me that one can submit documents to the RFC Editor
> and that (soon) starts a timeout.  From the RFC Editor's
> standpoint, the IESG has fixed that path so that it does not
> produce anything resembling a timely response.

Obviously this is something we have to discuss ASAP. My personal view 
of the process differs significantly from the view of the RFC-Editor. I 
must have missed when "IESG fixed the path".

There are two things hidden in here:

- Whether IESG respond within the timeout period given by RFC-Editor
- Whether RFC-Editor publish the document even if IESG doesn't respond

The delay thing (first bullet) is the overall IESG problem we talked 
about -- together with the lack of timeouts in the internal IESG 
process. The second bullet is different.

Regardless what the problem is, this needs to be resolved. First (I 
think) by more talk between IESG and RFC-Editor _and_ resolution of the 
issues we are aware about internally in the IESG.

     paf