Re: [idn] Supporting list for Draft-liana

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

There is no formal definition of who is a WG member. When determining 
if a real proportion of the WG is interested in considering an 
Internet Draft, a reasonable rule of thumb for the chairs might be 
"are the people supporting this draft even reading the mailing list, 
and have they been doing so during the discussion of the other 
alternatives?".

So, seven people might join the mailing list now and say "we support 
the Foo draft", but that isn't really relevant, because they have not 
seen the discussion of the other drafts. On the other hand, if 
someone has been reading the mailing list for the last six months, 
even if they have been silent, they can probably exercise good 
judgement when they say that they support a particular draft, or a 
particular option. This isn't about voting: it is about using sound 
technical judgement.

Please see ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3160.txt for an 
introduction to the IETF. It is pretty clear that many, possibly 
most, of the people in this WG have never participated in the IETF 
before, so it is quite understandable that they don't understand the 
rules or, more importantly, the motivation.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium