Re: Intelligence in standards-based software

> I understand you intend this to be humorous, but I think this actually
> deserves a serious response. When I present one of my own documents 
> to the IESG for approval I am automatically disqualified from acting as 
> a reviewer.  Additionally, anything I or any other IESG member presents 
> tends to be reviwed much more carefully than stuff coming in from other 
> sources. RIghtly or wrongly, the IESG is quite sensitive to charges of 
> favoritism, and if anything tends to err in the other direction.
> 
> I only wish I didn't speak from experience on this particular point.

I can confirm this from my own experience.  I would even say that one or 
two IESG members are actively hostile to such submissions.  

Keith