Peter Constable <petercon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Russ Housley... > >> > Since IETF does not vote, it is certainly not an issue here? >> >> This is not totally true. A WG Chair or Area Director cannot >> judge rough consensus if they are unsure if the portion of the >> population that is representing a dissenting view is one person >> or many different people. This is especially true when there >> are a large number of silent observers. > > > Frankly, it strikes me as somewhat odd that a body acting as a > standards-setting organization with public impact might allow any > technical decision on its specifications to be driven by people > operating under a cloak of anonymity. Expressing an anonymous voice? > No problem. Influencing determination of a consensus with public > impact? That should not be allowed, IMO. What if the pseudonymous voice raise a valid technical concern, provide useful text for a specification, or even co-author a specification? I think decisions should be based on technically sound arguments. Whether someone wants to reveal their real identity is not necessarily correlated to the same person providing useful contributions. /Simon _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf