Sloppy Charters (was: Re: Discipline of Internet Protocol Engineering)

[Keith Moore]

> And, personally, I believe _that_ problem has no solution at all 
> unless and until a majority of the IESG are ready to stand up 
> and say "we are seriously overloaded, and we are ready to do 
> something about it.  We understand that starts with accepting 
> the fact that we really can't do everything and then moves on to 
> being willing (and anxious) to look closely at any proposal that 
> might plausibly reduce load." 

and I suspect that, for this to happen, we'll need to find ways to
shift many of those burdens to other people rather than to simply 
avoid doing them.