Gray, Eric wrote:
It is useful sometimes to differentiate those who have no stake in a particular issue from those who are not paying attention.
(rest of post snipped) Here I must become two-faced. Personally, I agree with you. Often, there are many shades of grey between the white and black binary choices. Often, being able to communicate those shades of grey will be essential to creating a usable compromise. Unfortunately, there seems to be a religious dogma among the long-time IETF participants that they never take votes. All they do is judge rough or smooth concensus, and that reduces our options to simple binary choices. Thus, my attempt to create a binary method for asserting and testing a claim of concensus. I truly believe that we will have to go to some kind of multiple- choice voting system to reach decisions in these multi-valued cases. We have already seen a couple of examples on this list, where someone set up an opinion poll on the web, and later reported the results. Of course, in order for us to actually use them, they would have to be hosted by the IETF, or the "winners" of any poll would spend the rest of their lives fighting off charges of cheating. -- Unable to locate coffee. Operator halted. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf