On Sep 17, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
>>
>> we have abundant evidence of there being color added in the context
>> of ietf mailing lists. problem is, there's a lot more than color
>> added there.
>>
>> a wiki is a different medium than email. because people can alter
>> and even delete contributions by others, there's some tendency to try
>> to compromise in order to minimize change wars. admittedly, it's an
>> imperfect tendency.
>
> the frequency with which an opinion is stated by a small but prolific
> number of individuals should not confer legitimacy over less frequent
> contributors.
I agree. But what does that have to do with the current discussion?
>>> RFC's (WG documents in general) are the editorial filter through
>>> which we pass/preserve the contributed discussion that is deemed
>>> informative.
>>
>> this is not true of WG documents in general, which are often quite
>> biased and occasionally one-sided.
>
> I did not say that they were unbiased, I said that they served as filter
> on the output.
Indeed they do. Which argues for having another mechanism for community input.
Keith
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