At 11:12 PM -0400 10/19/06, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: >(presumably, an IESG member having only weak objections would enter an "abstain", This is not what an abstain means in the IESG's procedures. The text from http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/voting-procedures.txt says: > - "Abstain" means "I cannot vote to send this document forward." > There are two obvious reasons one might vote this way: > - so strongly opposed to document that I am unwilling to "discuss". > (note that this should be very unusual) > - I oppose this document for some philosophical reason but > understand that others differ and am not going to stand > in the way of the others In the normal case, the "Comments" field will indicate why an AD decided to abstain. Note that a large number of Abstains sends a document back to the working group. Unlike recuse positions, which are not counted in the 2/3 totals, abstains are counted along with yes, no objection, and discuss. Ted Hardie _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf