On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:57:56PM -0500, Gray, Eric wrote: > > Usually, before you can actually seek consensus, you must have an > essentially "binary" choice. It is hard enough to reach consensus > on simple choices without turning up the process noise by having a > plethora of possible choices. > I disagree here. The process of seeking consensus means you have to sort *through* the plethora of possible choices, and see which ones meets the needs and requirements of the stakeholder. If you have a binary choice, all you can really do is force a vote. So hopefully by the time that you come up to your last two choices, they hopefully aren't "binary" in the sense of 0 and 1 being diametric opposites. Hopefully the two or three final choices are pretty closely except for a few minor details (and then we end up spending huge amount of time arguing over those tiny details :-) - Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf