At 09:41 20-03-2009, Siegel, Ellen wrote:
OK, now I'm confused. Can someone define IETF rough consensus? The errata had
a 2/3 majority after the last round of discussion... does the IETF
ever get a better
consensus than that?
The Standards Process requires that a proposed standard be reviewed
by the IETF community to establish whether it has the
consensus. This Working Group, for example, is only a subset of the
IETF community. The Working Group can be used to to determine
whether it is worth asking the IETF community to review a
proposal. However, it cannot act as a substitute for the IETF community.
There isn't a formal definition of "IETF rough consensus". From the Tao:
"a simple version is that it means that strongly held objections
must be debated
until most people are satisfied that these objections are wrong"
Regards,
-sm
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