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Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

2007-06-12 13:12:02
On 6/12/07 3:17 PM, "Lakshminath Dondeti" <ldondeti(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
They are judges of consensus when
appropriate and the consensus better be independently verifiable.  In
the end, the entire process works with the IETF Community's consensus
where the IAB and the IESG get to prioritize the work.

It seems to me in practice that as long as one group of people
is designated as having the authority to block work, approve
work, block document publication, approve document publication,
and so on, you don't have the kind of level playing field
you're describing.  I am aware that there are people (possibly
a lot of people) who feel that anything that's got "consensus"
behind it (for whatever value of consensus) should be considered
okay, but I don't recall us (institutional "us") ever having that
conversation and resolving that question.

Melinda

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