Appeal re: URI Scheme Application and draft-mcsweeney-drop-scheme (Tim McSweeney, 2020-07-08) - 2020-07-08
Appeal - 2020-07-08

Hi Alissa,

Under RFC 2026 Section 6.5.2 (Process Failures) I am appealing the
following decisions made by the IESG its Designated Expert for URIs:

1.) The decision on 4/21/2020 to not allow my provisional URI scheme
to be entered into uri.arpa.

2.) The decision on 5/8/2020 to not allow my provisional URI scheme a
permanent status and to not allow placement of my scheme into uri.arpa
as either permanent or provisional.

3.) The decision on 5/8/2020 that my scheme syntax is invalid.

4.) The decision on 5/8/2020 to require require a new path of effort
without any well defined criteria for approval.

5.) The decision on 5/8/202 to require me to place scheme documentation on
the uri-review mailing list for review.

6.) The decision on 5/8/2020 to not to be able to communicate directly with
the IESG expert.

7.) The decision on 6/2/2020 to not allow placement of my scheme into
uri.arpa as either permanent or provisional.

8.) The decision on 6/2/2020 that my scheme is not a URI.

9.) The decision on 6/2/2020 that my scheme does not adhere to
RFC3986-defined syntax.

10.) The decision on 6/2/2020 to not complete the review and leave
issues open-ended.

11.) The decision on 6/24/2020 by the expert to override the consensus.

12.) The decision on 6/24/2020 to not allow placement of my scheme
into uri.arpa as either permanent or provisional.

13.) The decision of the IESG expert to not ask me a single question
about the inter-workings of my scheme in order to make a quality
examination of the scheme and to gain a full understanding of its
operations if its operations were unclear.

14.) The decision of the IESG to designate an URI review expert that
may not be aware of the responsibility of the uri.arpa zone.

15.) The decision of the IESG expert to send me on a wild goose chase
defining a URN scheme for a two way transformation of one scheme to
another scheme.

16.) The decision to not issue a last call as suggested would be done
on 5/8/2020

17.) The decision on 6/29/2020 to not allow placement of my scheme
into uri.arpa as either permanent or provisional after offering to
adjust the internet draft as well as the scheme dereferencing.

18.) The decision on 6/29/2020 to override the consensus.

Sincerely,
Tim McSweeney