On 01/07/2006 09:02 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand allegedly wrote: > That said... I like opinion polls, of various forms, and use them > frequently (some would say "too frequently"... I guess I've demonstrated > most of the bad sides of opinion polls over the years...). a useful function > In the good cases, they allow us to quickly and clearly distinguish the > pattern of opponents and proponents. In the bad case, they confirm what > we already knew - that the group is deadlocked and unable to make a > decision. that too > That's the time to pull out Ted Hardie's RFC 3929 and look for some > alternate methods - majority voting isn't listed there, and for good > reason. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf