would be wrong. The idea here is that applying _punitive_ action (such
as removal from a position) retroactively is not "fair,"
Oh, for heaven's sake. This is nothing to do with punishment. This
is a straightforward administrative problem. Turning this into an
opportunity to exercise a heavyweight and in fact punitive process
would be an injustice. If the IETF has wound itself into such
bureaucratic knots that we can't just make an exceptional decision in
exceptional circumstances, we are in much worse trouble than I
thought.
A
+1
+(much more than 1, actually)