On 17 May 2010 17:01, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote:
I took Joachim's suggestion to be that the RMA would act as an RM, up to the point of announcing a decision on the list, instead passing collected and generated information to the RM for consideration. If the RM trusts the RMA's input, or the RM has independently verified the RMA's input, the RM may follow the RMA's decision, even going so far as to copy and paste the RMA's suggested summary message to the list.
This sounds substantially like promoting the current pool of RMs to RWs, and letting new people into the RM pool. What good would an untrusted RMA be? If the RM has to independently verify everything said by the RMA, it seems like the RMA wasn't of any real use, since for a consensus issue, verification can't be done just by looking at the sources mentioned by an untrusted RMA.