On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 03:34:20PM -0500, Stephen J Baker wrote:
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| I have chosen not to vote because:
You may of course boycott any vote you choose, but that's not
necessarily going to help drive things to a conclusion.
| 2) The options are B and C - but nobody can agree on what B is -
That's not my impression. People have expressed preferences for other
semantics, but as far as I know all questions about the meaning of the
current proposal have been resolved. So it's a little misleading to
say "nobody can agree on what B is."
| 3) You have arbitarily chosen to remove option A ...
No, it wasn't arbitrary. As explained before, option B subsumes the
old option A. That's not the case with any other pair of options.
| IMHO, some small group needs to go off and form a concrete B-like
| proposal ...
That process has been used, and it yielded the current vote.
| ...and return to this list with a simple question like:
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| Do you accept this formulation or not?
This is one of your earlier suggestions that might be worth further
discussion. I haven't commented on it because I believe it needs more
thought. One can argue that since it offers no clear alternative to
its single proposal, it offers a chance to end the discussion but not
necessarily to lead the group to choose the best technical solution.
That's largely the reasoning that led me to propose the current choice
between B and C, rather than a choice between B and nothing.
Allen
