On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:19:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I wonder if such a veto has any formal effect? > It doesn't.
[..]
> > IOW, anyone can veto anything, but a veto as such has no power on its
> > own, right?
>
> Correct. The Policy Editors are responsible for judging consensus. We
> require a minimum number of seconds to ensure that a change has been
> properly reviewed by someone, but it's not a vote. If there is
> disagreement over the change, it's the responsibility of the Policy
> Editors to decide the best way to move forward (including asking the
> Technical Committee to weigh in if appropriate).
thanks for clarrifying, Russ. Also makes much sense to me.
Might have been that we've seen more "I veto this or that" in recent years
(though I haven't done any data analysis on this) on -policy changes,
hence I asked.
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