Re: : FYI: Site Local

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Eric,

rfc2418:

> 3.3. Session management
...
>    In the case where a consensus which has been reached during a face-
>    to-face meeting is being verified on a mailing list the people who
>    were in the meeting and expressed agreement must be taken into
>    account.
  

-- 
Alex

Thursday, April 3, 2003, 7:21:12 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> itojun@iijlab.net writes:

>> >> > By my current quick count, we are at 33 YES, 35 NO.  This brings the
>> >> > total count to 135 YES, 55 NO...  which is getting a bit too "rough",
>> >> > don't you think?
>> >Normally I wouldn't weigh in on this, but since it was sent to us...
>> >
>> >I don't think that you determine consensus by adding up
>> >the meeting + the mailing list. They're independent sampling
>> >events. With that in mind, I'd say this is *very* rough.
>> 
>>       on the mailing list Margaret asked people who *did not* attend the
>>       meeting to express their opinions (yes or no), so adding the numbers
>>       up do make sense.

> I'm afraid not. The problem is that response rates vary dramatically
> depending on how you sample. When people are in the meeting room,
> they're much more likely to respond than when they have to vote
> on a mailing list. This creates bias that makes adding up the
> samples inappropriate.

> -Ekr