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Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-15 15:39:19
On May 15, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Adrian Farrel 
<adrian(_at_)olddog(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
I suggest that the former is a bad result. Not that the authors/WG will ignore
the discussion, but if they disagree on something the AD considers very
important, the authors/WG have no incentive to participate in the discussion. 
Of
course, all participants in this thread so far would never behave like that, 
but
there is a possibility that this will happen for some authors.

This can also happen purely by accident—it need not involve malice on anyone's 
part.