intent was Re: Section 2.4 of draft-ietf-problem-statement-00.txt

[Avri Doria]

James Kempf wrote:
 > Process question to chairs: is the intent that we achieve concensus 
on what the
 > problems are for this draft, or is the draft supposed to reflect the 
diversity
 > of opinion about the problems as input to the solution procedure?
 >


I am not so sure that those two are that different in this
case.

My operating assumption has been that organizational
problems are always, to at least a certain degree, subjective.
If this is the case, the entire set of problems perceived
within a community as diverse as ours will not necessarily
be perceived by all of the community members.

Reaching rough consensus on a problem set will involve
collecting the problems that many people perceive as problems.
In cases where a significant number of people do not believe
that something is a problem while a significant number of others
do perceive it as a problem, the best we may be able to do will
be to document that difference of opinion.

This group will not be writing standards. Rather we will
be attempting to produce an informational document that
reflects, as much as possible, the issues our community
sees as problems.  Requiring full consensus on every
issue would possibly keep the document from including
discussion of some key issues.

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