My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Eric Rosen]

> There seems to be a common misconception in IETF that people can't
> appeal a WG or IESG decision based on technical grounds. RFC 2026 is
> quite clear that this is possible. 

This is no  misconception.  Regardless of what some  document might say, the
IESG will  not overrule the "responsible"  AD on technical  grounds, and the
IAB will only overrule the IESG if there are egregious process violations.