Well just one person will not be able to create rough concensus, except
in a VERY small group. Saying that someone MUST be wanting to produce
an inferior document because they were paid to create a product based on
the spec is not fair to any participants. I claim that MANY, if not
MOST IETF participants are paid one way or another based on the
specifications that they are working on.
are you really claiming that participants are paid differently based on
whether their employers like the outcome of some IETF process?
If a document has technical problems for the minority of participants
(i.e. the non-rough concensus) this doesn't mean there are technical
problems...
nor does rough consensus mean there are not technical problems.
I consider it part of my job to monitor the IETF and tell my employer
what I believe the decisions are going to be, what changes might be
coming, and how close to an RFC a given draft is.
all fine, as long as when providing input to IETF you give your technical
opinion as to what is best for the Internet as a whole, rather than
what is best for your employer.
Keith