+1 > -----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