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Re: [idn] report of the straw poll
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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