> From: Melinda Shore <melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
> it's absolutely the case that the IETF does not reach all "management"
> decisions through consensus decision-making processes
There's a big difference between using non-consensus decision processes for
minor procedural issues (e.g. meeting scheduling), and another entirely to
use that for significant policy changes.
The latter, as my previous note tried to show, is a very bad precedent to set.
> it is impossible to reach consensus among thousands of people of
> diverse backgrounds on nearly any non-trivial matter on which
> reasonable people can disagree
So, even though "reasonable people can disagree", we're going to use an
authoritarian process to ram it down people's throats anyway?
Noel