rough consensus of what "population"?

[Spencer Dawkins]

--- Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> > So when rough consensus is being assessed on a spec, the
> chair should
> > first ask who has read the spec and should then ask only
> those people
> > to do the humming.
> 
> so if you want to exclude people outside the inner circle, all
> you have 
> to do is make the spec so long and so opaque that nobody else
> can stand 
> to read it.

Given Margaret's pleading for MIB reviewers in the IPv6-related
working groups, this can't be news to anyone, can it?

Spencer

p.s. I happened to be looking at an I-D repository yesterday and
was gratified at the number of I-Ds that are actually pretty
short. They may still be opaque, but the length-based DoS attack
doesn't seem to be catching on widely...