Deciding between two choices

[Marshall Rose]

> 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