Document Blocking (Was: I-D

[Keith Moore]

> > when an AD has an issue with a document and has voted
> > "discuss" the document and the issues are discussed during an
> > IESG teleconference - sometimes the discussion results in the
> > AD changing their evaluation and removing their "discuss"
> 
> And sometimes, it results in the AD saying, more or less, "I 
> will explain my reasons in a note or draft writeup".  At that 
> stage, unless there is a clear consensus that the AD is off 
> base, the IESG will give the AD as much time as needed to do 
> that writeup (after all, each AD might be in the same position 
> next time).  That can take an arbitrarily long time.

My recollection is that during the time that I was on IESG it became much
less acceptable for an AD to explain his reasons for a Discuss at a later
time.  By the end of my 2nd term we were expected to exlain our reasons at the
time we voted Discuss.  The explanations could be brief, or the AD could vote
Defer for one telechat (usually two weeks) and then change it to Discuss once
the explanation was supplied, but "I'll write it up later" wasn't acceptable
anymore.  And a Defer automatically changed to No Objection if not explicitly
changed by the next telechat.