rough consensus of what "population"?

[Bound, Jim]

Fair point.  But to respond.

How can anyone make technical commentary if they have not read the spec?

/jim

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore at cs.utk.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:30 AM
> To: Dave Crocker
> Cc: problem-statement at alvestrand.no; Keith Moore
> Subject: Re: rough consensus of what "population"?
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
>