Dave,
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A critical danger in central management is an inherent fragility in
decision-making. Real diversity is lost. This becomes even more
serious, as the central management becomes more homogeneous and more
isolated.
On the subject of central management, quoting from the IESG Plenary on
Wednesday:
IESG Plenary/Open Mike
Q: Two questions for both IAB and IESG - individual participation and
consensus - are these still important? alternative is participation by
companies or governments, and voting... - we believe in these values
up to point, at which point the IESG makes a decision - Harald
semi-agrees that sometimes a decision is needed and the IESG makes
one, but does not agree that IESG can impose its will against a
working group - but does IESG try to get community consensus when it
makes a decision?
So it seems that the IETF traditional motto, "rough consensus and
working code" should be revised to make it clear that the "rough
consensus" goes only up to a certain point, but after that point
the IETF operates solely by a decree from the IESG.
Yakov.