Hi Martin, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Martin Rex <m...@sap.com> wrote: > Donald Eastlake wrote: >> >> If polls at area meetings with 100+ people at them at three successive >> IETF meetings on different continents consistently show, say, a 3 to 1 >> preference for some proposal but the IETF Last call email has 6 people >> speaking against and only 4 in favor, what do you think the right >> judgement would be as to the consensus of the IETF community? > > That is completely missing the point of the IETF consensus process.
Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. It depends, as you state below, on the type of issue or issues that are being discussed. I should have stated that it was something like deciding between two methods of accomplishing the same technical goal where neutral observers do not think there is a big difference in the technical effectiveness of the methods, or something like. > If there is just one single person that objects during LC, but > raises 10 different issues, then it is totally irrelavant how many > there are that are in favour. But then you go on, below, to say that the number of supporters really is the most relevant thing if it turns out to be issues of taste... > Raised issues have to be processed with the > issue resolution process, i.e. drilldown (probably during discussion) > into pure matters of taste (where a significant majority decision is OK), > procedural issues (which strongly need to be resolved) and technical > issues that need to be either resolved or determined&declared to be > out-of-scope (or documented that no practical solution is known to > exists but the proposal/document is useful in spite of that). So it really depends on the circumstances. >... > > -Martin Thanks, Donald ============================= Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
