IESG restructuring (Re: Example of the One Liners out of context)

[Eric Rescorla]

"Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette at wz-berlin.de> writes:
> Perhaps this is naïve but I would think the starting point of a mission 
> should be to make explicit the common ground of every day working 
> group discussion. Now, don't tell me there is no or only little common 
> ground. You wouldn't be able to communicate in the first place if you 
> didn't share crucial concepts, goals and values. To some degree it 
> depends on the language whether you can agree on value based 
> issues. 

I think the problem is that we can all pretty much agree on what
our individual incentives are but that we don't have a consensus
on how to aggregate those preferences. But that's where a lot
of the politicing comes in.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr at rtfm.com]
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