On Sep 17, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
we have abundant evidence of there being color added in the context
of ietf mailing lists. problem is, there's a lot more than color
added there.
a wiki is a different medium than email. because people can alter
and even delete contributions by others, there's some tendency to try
to compromise in order to minimize change wars. admittedly, it's an
imperfect tendency.
the frequency with which an opinion is stated by a small but prolific number of individuals should not confer legitimacy over less frequent contributors.
I agree. But what does that have to do with the current discussion? RFC's (WG documents in general) are the editorial filter through
which we pass/preserve the contributed discussion that is deemed
informative.
this is not true of WG documents in general, which are often quite
biased and occasionally one-sided.
I did not say that they were unbiased, I said that they served as filter on the output.
Indeed they do. Which argues for having another mechanism for community input.
Keith |
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