Kent,

I may be old fashioned but the IETF used to determine consensus on
mailing lists (and as an experienced WG chair I assume you know ways
to do that). Perhaps you can simply change the wording in the (draft)
minutes and we move on.

Thanks,

/js

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 03:46:13PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> 
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> > Well, statements like "the WG agrees" are problematic for things that
> > have not been discussed on the mailing list. Perhaps it is the people
> > attending the interim agreed? Well, I can't tell, I have not been
> > there...
> 
> Maybe but…
>   - it was an official Interim meeting (not just a design team)
>   - the subject of this email indicates “Draft Minutes”.
>   - the body of the email says "Please report any updates needed here."
> 
> Clearly the email is the “confirmation" on the list, and hence it didn't
> seem wrong to predictively say "the WG agrees”.
> 
> That said, I wonder who all constitute the “working group”.  Does it make
> sense to extend that label to folks who don’t participate?  The “netmod”
> mailing list has 410 members, but it’s hard to imagine the “working group”
> being anywhere close to that.
> 
> Kent
> 
> 

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