On Thursday, April 28, 2005 03:39:36 PM -0700 Joe Touch <touch(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU>
wrote:
They're only equivalent if another AD can't tell the difference between
the two. IMO, they could, were they involved in the process.
If I may read between the lines here, it sounds like you're suggesting some
sort of reality-check process that is more lightweight than a full appeal.
Informally, we have that -- if one AD is giving me a hard time for a dumb
reason, I can ask another AD to try to talk some sense into them. But that
only works if the participant has a good relationship with another AD, and
while you hope that's true for WG chairs, that might not always be good
enough.
So maybe your concern would be addressed by some sort of "discuss override"
mechanism, by which the IESG could actively decide that a discuss is
inappropriate and disregard it. Such a mechanism would have to be invoked
explicitly, and would perhaps involve a consensus call by the IESG chair...
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