Re: [idn] Future of the requirements document

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>]

James,

Please compare your response to Ms. Ye, and your response to Mr. Semich.

Ms. Ye's draft's "supporters" must meet a criteria.
Mssrs. Seng and Blanchett's rough consensus "commentors" need not.

Even if Ms. Ye's draft was worth reading (IMO it is not, having done so),
and even if I'd blind faith in the intelligence, judgement, and humor of
Mssrs. Seng and Blanchett (I don't, and I get no pleasure from that), it
would still be a dubious proposition that either could offer anonymous
(and possibly ficticious) personas as being sufficient to meet either a
test for community interest (in a draft) or community consensus (in an act).

If there really is consensus that "the IDN WG doesn't need any requirements"
or that "the requirements for the IDN are self-evident to the WG", or any
variation on the theme of "badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges", then
fine. So state and be done with it.

Eric