Keith Moore wrote:
Neither POISSON nor any working group gets to do what it wants to do
when it wants to do it. All topics have always needed IESG approval.
while this is true, neither Poisson or its predecessors has ever been
quite like any other working group. in my experience IESG has felt
considerable pressure to follow the direction of Poisson, and some
reluctance to object to Poisson discussing a particular topic.
And that is just the problem, with Poisson being populated by a small subset
of active IETF participants and a number of people whose main interest is
in fact process issues. Despite the fact that process discussions might
appear to be a distraction on the main IETF list, it is only there that we
can get a feeling for what *everybody* thinks, rather than the rather
special subset susbcribed to Poisson.
Brian