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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > William Herrin > Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 4:17 PM > To: Brian E Carpenter > Cc: RRG > Subject: Re: [rrg] Fwd: RRG Recommendation > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If Tony allows a consensus check, which he hasn't and today > reiterated > >> that he won't, I suspect we'd find that most of the participants > >> agree. > > > > I don't. > > Brian, > > I'd be happy to discover that I am mistaken in this. Mistake or not > I'd be even happier to get the actual views of the participants > clearly documented in the record. There are, however, two points about > which I am not mistaken: > > 1. Tony's initial inclusion of a the recommendation back in March was > very contentious, with substantial dissent exhibited on the list. JD: As usual, there was a volume of whining from a few people. > > 2. Despite the expressed dissent both then and now, the chairs have > declined to hold a consensus call specifically on the recommendation's > inclusion, instead allowing only a consensus call on the publication > of the entire document as edited. > > Whatever the IRTF procedures may allow, I think it would be > contemptuous of the researchers to push an agenda like the > "recommendation" over their objections. > So let's not do that. Solicit > the participants' consensus to allow the recommendation's inclusion or > else strip it from the document. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 > _______________________________________________ > rrg mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
