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Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-05 17:55:58
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Keith Moore wrote:
Nothing like "responsibility to look after the overall technical health of 
the 
Internet" was assigned to the IESG.

You seem to be forgetting something, Dave.

Every IETF participant is supposed to use his best engineering judgement
as to what is best for the Internet as a whole, when making technical 
decisions.

You seem to think that every IETF participant _except_ those on IESG
should do so.   You seem to think that everyone else should be able to
exercise their judgement but that the IESG should just serve as 
process facilitators and rubber stamp technical decisions that others
make.  IMNSHO, that's ridiculous.  We put good technical people on 
IESG so that they can make good technical decisions.

Keith,

The IESG can still exercise their best engineering judgment as
individuals, as the rest of us do.

The IESG role itself need not incorporate a privileged position from
which to wield that judgement. There's plenty left to do.

Joe


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