On 12/18/2014 2:24 AM, Dan S wrote:
Hi Matthijs,
The DWG email used the word "consensus" inappropriately, since
consensus means everyone agreeing, and we didn't. However, consensus
is essentially impossible in big wiki communities like ours, so let's
assume there's a relative meaning of the term;)
Consensus is not unanimity. For consensus I generally point at IETF
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2418#section-3.3) although there are
other definitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Consensus-flowchart.png is helpful as
an overview - the test for consensus is only a small part of achieving
consensus.
In the past, most proposals have either failed to engage the community
or been supported with near unanimity with little middle ground.
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