Re: WG Review: Operation of the IESG/IAB Nominating and Recall Committees (nomcom)

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 01:58 PM 4/15/2002 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> Please cite a rule that says that IESG can't hold a BOF after they've
> announced a possible charter... or anything else that justifies a
> "sorry, no"  response.
...
> But there are already too many misconceptions about how IETF works, and
> I don't to see this one added to that list.


Evidently you missed the latter portion of my posting.  The key trigger was 
Robert's making an assumption that did not have specific basis in the 
current situation.  Assuming that there will be some future opportunity to 
correct something, when there is no clear indication that that opportunity 
will be provided, is a common and very dangerous project management error.

As a matter of practise, the time between an IESG announcement of intent to 
charter and the act of chartering tends to be short and BOFs do NOT occur 
during that time.

One of the more serious misconceptions about how the IETF works is the 
difference between formal theory and actual practise.

d/

ps.  may we now move to discussing remedies for the draft charter?


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