Document Blocking (Was: I-DACTION:draft-ietf-problem-process-00.txt)

[Spencer Dawkins]

Thomas has good instincts for research design.

I'm remembering from the book "Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking"
about the estimates of the rat population in New York during the 1970s,
when someone finally figured out that if a researcher saw a rat on the third
floor of a slum, and a rat on the seventh floor, and a rat on the ninth
floor,
they could all be the same rat...

Spencer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Narten" <narten at us.ibm.com>
To: "Pete Resnick" <presnick at qualcomm.com>
Cc: <problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Document Blocking (Was:
I-DACTION:draft-ietf-problem-process-00.txt)

>
> I'd actually like to better understand how much of a REAL problem it
> is that individual ADs are impropropely blocking documents with the
> "single AD veto". There are many comments that imply it happens "all
> the time" and that "everyone has examples". But I wonder sometimes if
> we are all thinking of the same document from 3 years ago.