Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In any event, these email lists have elicited more comments than any > meeting in Vancouver could properly address. How do we intend to > move toward consensus? I think it is clear from the discussions that while there is no consensus that the current way of doing things is adequate, there is also little to no hope for reaching a consensus anytime soon for a comprehensive set of changes that would fully resolve the existing concerns with regard to standards-track and other RFCs describing protocols and data formats which for patent reasons cannot fully be implemented in open source and free software. The only way forward therefore seems to be to seek to identify relatively small changes for which rough consensus can be reached and which are helpful already for reducing the problem or resoving some aspects of it. Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <nb@xxxxxxxxx> http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG http://SIUG.ch Working on establishing a non-corrupt and truly /open/ international standards organization http://OpenISO.org _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf