Dave,
The feedback was from a subset of the WG. For some time my
IETF meeting minutes have included a discussion of the percentage of
attendees who were, by their own admission, new to the WG, and who did
not profess to be thoroughly familiar with the topic being discussed.
This percentage was always a MAJORITY of the attendees. Thus the
results of the poll taken at the mtteing is not necessarily indicative
of the sense of the WG. Hence the referendum. If there was a real
sense of urgency in getting this spec out the door, I would have
expected the authors to have revised the previous draft, in response
to comments documented in the previous IETF meeting minutes
(distributed to the mailing list one day after that meeting) and in my
more detailed comments (which were delayed by a week or so), sooner
than the traditional 1.5 weeks before the next IETF meeting.
Steve