You don't get sign off (approval) from peers but comments from them. It's important the RFC is public and anyone can comment on it. If after a period of time t

You don't get sign off (approval) from peers but comments from them. It's important the RFC is public and anyone can comment on it. If after a period of time there are no objections expressed in the doc (people are busy etc) then that means the objections were not that important and we can move forward.