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Re: IETF Last Calls and Godwin-like rules

2012-02-16 10:16:24
Hi John,
At 06:04 16-02-2012, John C Klensin wrote:
A current Last Call has apparently brought on another of the
"please tell all your friends to send in supportive notes, even
if they don't say much of anything substantive" campaigns that
we see from time to time.  When those notes come from people who
do not routinely participate on IETF lists, they provide very
little real information unless we have suddenly taken up voting

Letter-writing campaigns occur every now and then. As there isn't any vote count, the effort can end up in a diluted form.

individual and +1" does not.   Sadly, such endorsements,
especially from people who are not active IETF participants, add
to the noise and might prevent someone who was still genuinely
trying to understand the pros and cons (presumably including all
of the IESG) from seeing a new and substantive argument, no
matter how well-grounded.

Last year, someone discussed about how a "+1" could be read and some people were offended. Maybe authors should be given the choice to have their proposal evaluated by counting the votes or to have the evaluation which is based on substantive comments. Nobody would be offended then.

Regards,
-sm
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