On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:17:46AM -0500, Stephen J Baker wrote:
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| Why? The last vote came down in favor of A. Do we have to keep
| voting until C wins?
In a previous note, I tried to explain why many of us believe it's
essential to avoid option A, even if it had clearly dominated the
previous votes (which it didn't). Based on offline discussions, it's
my guess that the compromise position, B, will carry the day; but we
have no central authority who can simply declare that. So it seems
another vote is necessary, now that the situation has been explained
in more detail.
I acknowledge your unhappiness with the process. Can you suggest
improvements?
| So a large company can pack the ballots with several hundred
| people who havn't been listening to the discussion?
If there were a serious problem with that, I'd go with the ARB
approach (one vote per organization). However, in this context, we've
typically seen different people in a given organization vote
differently. (Brian Paul and I voted differently; Jon Leech and David
Blythe voted differently; etc.) So I'm inclined to encourage everyone
to vote unless there's compelling evidence that we need to do
otherwise.
Allen
