On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 08:05 -0400, Margaret Wasserman wrote: > In the IETF, we use straw polls to get a sense of how many people in > the room have an opinion on a particular topic, This room factor is also one of the reasons why I mentioned e-mail in my message. Each WG has a set of active participants and a number of people who don't visibly work, might lurk or do a lot of work behind the scenes on the topic of the WG, at least these people are reading, hopefully, the messages on this list. What if one of the hard working persons has a lot to do, or due to sickness or whatever reason, maybe business somewhere, raising his/her kids, or what about the very normal reason: no time and money, to not attend an IETF meeting. Then this person will not be in the room and thus can't participate in a vote, for which he/she worked very hard to get around. This thus basically means that if he/she can't be there all his work could be just hummed away by some proponent sending in a lot of people, who never did anything at all, and might not even know anything on the subject and let them hum their tone. In short..... if you don't have a lot of financial backing one is not getting anywhere in an organization that is supposed to based on individuals, whom are supposed to be doing work on free open internet standards, but are unable to do so over that internet they are making those standards for... Just my two cents ;) Greets, Jeroen
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