Subject: Re: Charset compromise (Was Re: Character-set) header
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 91 10:01:17 +1000
From: Bob Smart <smart(_at_)mel(_dot_)dit(_dot_)csiro(_dot_)au>
However I would like to hear from the Chair about the way this
decision was taken. I support the fact that if an argument is stalled
then let it be decided in a face to face meeting. However Ned's
message on Content-charset _after_ Atlanta was the first I, or I
think Nathaniel Borenstein, had heard of the arguments for this
change. I think we can reach good decisions by mixing slow e-mail
discussion with face to face meetings. Complete consensus on e-mail
is ideal. Proposals raised for the first time at ietf meetings need
to be treated with caution: not blindly written down as agreements.
While I sympathise with Bob's concern about issues being changed
at an IETF meeting by those people who cannot attend, the content
charset issue *was* raised before the meeting. Not hearing an adequite
response I raised it again.
It is not my intention to try and ram a solution down people's throat,
but I don't want toe compromise reached at Atlanta to thrown out because
of a "rules violation" when we did raise the issue beforehand.