On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:56:38PM -0400, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: > But the more serious case involved IPSEC. The situation was thus: > > ~20 people for one proposal. > ~20 people for a different proposal > ~150 people for "someone please decide so we can go off and > implement!" > > So I read the consensus as "We want this solved." I then asked the > authors of the two proposals if they could come to consensus by > September 1, 1996 (this was in March of 1996). They said they would > try. On August 29th I received a phone call telling me that they tried, > but could not agree. > > So I decided. > > I chose one of the proposals and wrote up my decision and sent it to the > WG list. I outlined my decision criteria, and how I viewed each proposal > against the criteria, finally offering to publish the "losing" proposal > as informational documents. > > My one regret is that I didn't publish my decision as an RFC. Just > didn't think about it. I may dig it out of my e-mail archives and > publish it at some point (with some additional historic background) as a > historical RFC. The more time I get to refer to it, the more it makes > sense to publish it. For people who are interested in reading Jeff's writeup, it can be found here: (nothing ever disappears from the internet :-) http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ipsec/1996/09/msg00096.html - Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf