Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

["Mark Davis" <markdavis34@home.com>]

This is clearly urgent.

1) There is a vast pent-up demand for this, as evidenced by the number of
registrations at the Verisign test bed and other places. (I suspect that if
the English speakers on this list had been forced to write URLs with
Cyrillic characters all their lives, they would have more of a sense of
urgency also ;-)

2) The delay is just producing dozens of incompatible ad-hoc 'solutions',
all getting more and more entrenched. (From the outside, it does not appear
that the debate on this list has been particularly productive for some time,
in that there is little evidence of people changing their positions due to
the discussions.)

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net>
To: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <phoffman@imc.org>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:00
Subject: Re: [idn] report of the straw poll


> 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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