Gray, Eric writes: > This is simply not true. All one needs to do is publish a > crucial document relevant to the working groups charter, > and important to understanding the rest of the work, and > one will be inundated with questions. Then maybe message traffic is not a reliable indicator of "disturbance"; in which case those here who attempt to associate the two are either naïve or disingenuous. > Debate on work in progress is critical, must be in public > at least much of the time and will usually involve a small > number of people - authors in particular - who simply must > participate. So why is it bad when a small number of people consistently disagree and post many messages in consequence? How can you have critical public debate without lots of message traffic and disagreement? _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf