Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

[Bright Fulton <bright@alldomains.com>]

36 of 50 is 72%.  The other 28% was split.  Whether or not the poll was
accurate, and whether or not the majority is right, there is a clear
majority.

Bright


On Fri, 25 May 2001, Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 08:54 AM 5/25/2001, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> >The WG chair didn't seem to declare "rough consensus", unfortunately. The 
> >poll showed one strongly-favored choice and a vast smattering of other 
> >choices with none having even 10% of the support. Is
> 
> Bill Semich's concern that 'yes' got only 36 votes has some appeal, 
> although the normal IETF view is that we only consider the concerns and 
> desires of those who show up.  We cannot guess the desires of people who 
> did not participate in the straw poll.
> 
> On the other hand, the 36 was less than 2/3 of the vote.  My personal 
> approximation between "rough consensus" a percentage is not less than 2/3, 
> because having 1/3 of a group disagree with a decision is simply too strong 
> a constituency to have unhappy.
> 
> As to how to proceed, I wonder whether we should first resolve the question 
> of urgency.  Although it is beyond my comprehension, a number of people 
> seem to believe that there is little urgency.  Perhaps we should assess 
> working group view of urgency.  If there is consensus about urgency THEN we 
> can try to consider what solutions are amenable to quicker deployment.
> 
> d/
> 
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