And what happens if somebody responds with a +2? Is there anything useful this mailing list could discuss? dbh > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Thomas [mailto:mat@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 7:13 AM > To: IETF Discussion > Subject: +1 > > > Is it just in my part of the ietf woods, or is this becoming > a widespread > phenomenon? If so, is this a good thing or a bad thing? > > On the one hand, it can be really difficult to get a feel for > consensus on > a mailing list where silence may mean agreement, boredom with the > topic, or just... silence. And then there's the general > problem that since > we're engineers articulations of agreement generally start with some > form of "it depends". So maybe a short hand way of saying "this is > good enough for me, let's not go into the weeds by my agreeing for > potentially different reasons" is a generally Good Thing. > > On the other hand, it sure seems like this sort of thing can be gamed. > That is, somebody posts something and three or four of the > usual suspect > chime in with their +1 and lo and behold it looks a lot more > like consensus > than the previous "it depends" tomes. But is it really > consensus, or is it > just (benignly) a way for the usual suspects to signal to > each other that > they are willing live with another's proposal (which is not > to say that > that is necessarily a small thing in itself)? And what about > when it's not > benign? Could it be that +1 could be a way to short circuit > inspection and > debate in er, um, more, um, politicized settings? > > That and it seems all so very <aol>me too!</aol> > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf