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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:51:17 +0200
To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
From: r&d afrac <rd@afrac.org>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: [psg.com #1103] WGLC Add File-level Description field
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On 01:13 16/08/2005, Randy Presuhn said:
>I'd like to give others time to speak on the proposal to mark #1103
>rejected, whether understood as adding a "FileDescription" field
>or a "#" convention for comments.  I'll give folks until 10:00 a.m.
>(California time) on Tuesday, August 16 2005 for further comment.
>That will give all our active participants a chance to comment on this,
>since at least some of the Europeans are probably asleep right now.

I obviously hate this. But it must be said.

After consensus by exhaustion: this is exclusion by the clock!  Difficult 
to better document an American (Californian?) oriented bias.  Asians, 
Middle-East, Africans, etc. are not even considered! As if Drafts were a 
competition between American and European positions (as suggested by a WG 
Draft author), instead of a common work striving towards the best solutions 
for all. This attitude also denotes a childish confusion between an IETF-WG 
and a wooden horse toy. USA had Minute Men, they seem now to have Minute 
Last Calls.

I am not to judge this, so I will not call for the resignation of the 
co-Chair. But I would think his apologies to all the members of this WG 
would be appropriate to maintain a decent image of the IETF.

Sorry.
jfc





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