Deciding between two choices

[Margaret Wasserman]

Ignoring me tentative analysis of the cause, would you agree that
we have a problem with making, and sticking to, decisions?

Margaret


At 11:42 AM 12/19/2002 -0800, Marshall Rose wrote:
> > I think that this may be an artifact of our "rough consenus"
> > decision making process.  "Rough consensus" probably worked well
> > when the IETF was a small group of like-minded individuals with
> > a few strong leaders with a fairly consistent world-view.  But,
> > I don't think it is serving us very well today.
>
>hi. the problem with this statement is that it ignores the long history
>of the IETF. there have always been radically different opposing
>viewpoints, eg., SGMP v. CMIP v. HEMS.
>
>whatever failures the IETF has, it's probably not due to its reliance on
>rough concensus...
>
>/mtr