[Fwd: Re: rough consensus (was Re: "trouble maker")]

Brian E Carpenter brian at hursley.ibm.com
Wed Jul 16 16:01:09 CEST 2003


Scott W Brim wrote:
> 
> I like the idea that Chairs should document why they declared consensus
> (or the lack of it).

Agreed. But another thing that may be going on is Chairs making consensus 
calls too late.

If you ask a WG to accept a draft that's been in development for a year
and the WG says no, you asked the question too late. It's not a
problem with the consensus process, but with the decision tree.

      Brian


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