suggestions (voting)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

There are SDOs that have interesting voting procedures.
For instance ISO, which allows the following (if I have understood it 
correctly):

- Approve (wholeheartedly)
- Approve with comments (should be fixed but not important)
- Disapprove with comments (and will approve if comments are addressed)
- Disapprove altogether

And the rules for approval are NOT "51% wins" - it's far more biased 
towards "objector can block" - but I don't remember the details.

I've thought that if we could get more IETF members to read documents and 
give that level of feedback on them, we would be able to work a lot better 
than when the IESG sends documents back for recycle at final edit.

                      Harald

--On mandag, november 25, 2002 16:00:52 +0200 john.loughney@nokia.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>> There are other problems (e.g. vote trading).  There are good reasons
>> we avoid formal voting.  We should keep the current practice of not
>> having formal voting.
>>
>> Ran
>
> I agree.  Also it should be noted that other SDOs, such as 3GPP, that
> have  provisions for formal voting to try to avoid voting - as it is
> usually the case that voting can be quite disruptive to producing good
> quality specs.
>
> John
>