Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Just a general comment: I think that as far as decision-taking is concerned, we need to treat WG jabber sessions (and teleconferences) exctly like face to face meetings - any "decisions" taken must in fact be referred to the WG mailing list for rough consensus. Otherwise, the people who happen to attend a particular jabber session or teleconference have undue influence. So, it would be OK for a WG chair to write to the WG "On yesterday's jabber session, there was a strong consensus to pick solution A instead of B. The arguments are summarized below and the full jabber log is at X. Please send mail by <date> if you disagree with this consensus." It would not be OK to write "On yesterday's jabber session we decided to pick solution A."
Yep, that's exactly what I had in mind -- a proxy for actual f2f meetings to hopefully cut down on the thashing about on the list itself as people are just trying to understand one another. Mike _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf