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Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

2008-07-19 16:25:17
Ned,

While it seems otherwise, I don't think our suggestions are
really inconsistent.   Let me summarize a way to combine the
radical and the more radical:

      (1) Assume, right now and restoring an historical
      principle, that an AD has the right and obligation to
      waive the cutoff in situations that AD considers that it
      is important enough to the process to just get a draft
      posted to do so.  I think we are agreed about that.
        
To the extent it relaxes the rules and helps as an interim measure, sure. But
we need to keep in mind that every cycle we take away from ADs to do this sort
of thing is time that could better be spent on something that's actually
useful.

      (2) As soon as convenient, initiate a discussion about
      updating the posting cutoff rules so that they are
      consistent with today's realities.  I hope that the IESG
      can lead that discussion, or find someone to lead it,
      and that we can have a new plan in place well before
      Minneapolis (it is too late to implement anything for
      Dublin anyway).  It would be a shame to have to initiate
      a formal process experiment for this, but that option is
      available too if the IESG doesn't feel like it wants to
      take the lead but is receptive to a proposal for change.
      I think it makes less difference whether I'm right and
      _some_ sort of nominal cutoff is a good idea or you (and
      maybe Spencer) are and we should just do away with the
      cutoff than that, to paraphrase Scott Brim, we don't
      [continue] to treat decade-old rules that have been
      overtaken by events as dogma or Received Wisdom.

Yes, on this we agree.

                                Ned
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