Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

another (much more contentious, but I'm throwing it anyway) reading of the 
straw poll:
- in the disagree group, there is no concensus on alternatives.
- one would expect to vote for himself: i.e. I've not looked at who vote 
for what, but I could suspect interested parties to vote for their 
technology or their proposals.
- 3 disagree proposed nothing.

If one put aside the "vote for myself" and the "nothing proposed", then 
only 5 people remains and all propose some variant of UTF8.

compared to 36 participants who all agree on the same proposal.

So another reading of the results is maybe that we do have a "rough concensus".

controversial statement, right? Think about it before replying.

Before someone jump over me: I'm fairly neutral for the outcome of the wg 
orientation.

Marc.


At/À 08:38 2001-05-25 -0400, Marc Blanchet you wrote/vous écriviez:
>On Sun, 20 May 2001 09:51:31 -0400, an electronic straw poll was requested 
>by the idn co-chairs to reverify the previous concensus on 
>idna-nameprep-ace proposal. Those who disagree were asked to identify the 
>draft of the suggested alternative. The end of the poll was wednesday May 
>23rd 2001, 23h59 GMT.
>
>50 participants participated in the straw poll.
>
>36 participants agree with the idna-nameprep-ace orientation.
>
>14 participants disagree. In this group, here is a summary of the 
>suggested alternatives with the number of people in the front of each line:
>
>   1 UCS or UTF variants preferred
>   2 draft-skwan-utf8-dns-06.txt
>   2 Just send UTF
>
>   1 The DNSII Multilingual Domain Name Protocol
>   1 draft-ietf-idn-vidn-01.txt
>   1 draft-ietf-idn-uname-00.txt
>
>   2 draft-ietf-idn-udns, draft-ietf-idn-uname, draft-ietf-idn-idne, 
> draft-ietf-idn-iptr, draft-ietf-idn-vidn, draft-skwan-utf8-dns,
>      draft-klensin-dns-role
>   1 premature to decide before exploring alternatives
>
>   3 nothing proposed
>
>
>The counters group: Marc Blanchet, Dave Crocker, James Seng, Rick Wesson, 
>Yoshiro Yoneya
>
>
>