On Sep 11, 2012, at 15:10, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote:
rejecting this proposed statement in favor of discretion,
I'm not privy to the circumstances that caused the original proposal to come up.
Maybe the reason was that the IESG *wants* its hands bound so there is no
further need to waste time on such decisions (e.g., because the policy
discourages or can be used to discourage requests of this kind in the first
place).
But this is all speculation without further background.
And I'm not that interested in the subject anyway.
(I *am* interested we don't use it as an excuse to break the I-D archive.)
Grüße, Carsten