Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

If we count the 14 who disagree with IDNA and suggested their own
Internet Draft instead, then ...

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bright Fulton" <bright@alldomains.com>
To: "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net>
Cc: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <phoffman@imc.org>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: 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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