On Nov 28, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Michael Richardson
<mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca> wrote:
That tells me that the participants are not willing to live with losing and
move on, and so no voting process will work either.
[BA] The participants aren't willing to live with losing for business or legal
reasons that aren't within the jurisdiction of an IETF WG. As an example,
would an open source product that requires source code to be provided without a
license fee put that aside because IETF RTCWEB has agreed upon H.264 as MTI?
Similarly, would a vendor who is concerned about potential liability from
incorporating VP8 put that concern aside because the IETF RTCWEB WG has decided
to make VP8 MTI?
Given that "alternative decision processes" are quite unlikely to influence
participant behavior, it is appropriate to question why such a voting process
is being used, without at least a determination of consensus to do so.