For what it is worth, those who I've seen commenting in the +1 fashion recently are primarily people I've known to be active in the IETF for years - including some WG chairs. I don't think this is an effort to round up external voters - but rather encouragement to others inside IETF to publicly speak up. Alia who usually doesn't post much on the general IETF list either On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> > > > When those notes come from people who do not routinely participate on > > IETF lists > > Well, that's the $64 million question, right? I mean, I don't personally > subscribe to every IETF-related list, so I have no idea if the people who are > posting are active in some subset of the IETF, just not (previously) this > list. And does someone have to have spoken up on a list, to have just as much > right to an opinion as a frequent poster? Some people are just naturally quiet. > > I'd say that if anyone has been subscribed to any IETF list _prior_ to the > call to 'join in', their opinion ought to have just as much weight as those > of us who have historically been more wordy on the main list. > > Noel > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf