Hi Bill,
Yikes! Tony, here's what our old friend Webster has to say about consensus:
consensus
n.
1 an opinion held by all or most
2 general agreement, esp. in opinion
Here's what another authority has to say about consensus:
Decisions are made by those who show up.
-- Aaron Sorkin
The notion that because the other 461 subscribers of the list were not
offended enough to respond constitutes consensus in favor defies the
plain English meaning of the word consensus.
Perhaps. However, it's still the rough consensus measurement mechanism
that the IETF and this RG operate on.
Anyone have any stats on what percentage of registered voters actually
vote? ;-)
Last year, I and most of the rest of the group ignored your
declaration of consensus on "fix it for IPv6 first" and continued
focusing solely on approaches which work for IPv4.
Interesting. I don't recall that. In fact, I've been very careful to
do clear consensus checks. The only mail message that I can find that
was like that said:
Solving v4 without solving v6 is just a bandaid. Hopefully, we can
do better. IMHO, it would be sufficient to fix just the
v6 side of things, but again, that's personal opinion.
Hope you read the whole sentence.
Of course, there is the non-trivial probability that I'm afflicted with
Mad Cow disease and that I'm forgetting something that we've done. I
can find a few other consensus checks (interim meeting, renumbering, day
of the meeting) but nothing that pertains to IPv6 vs. IPv4. AFAIK, that
is an open point of disagreement and vehement discussion. ;-)
Care to cite chapter and verse?
Tony
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