On 2/16/12 6:59 AM, Alia Atlas wrote:
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 tend to be involved with different working groups from the ones John is, and I've assumed (forgive me) that he's seeing something somewhere that I'm not. I've certainly seen the behavior he's describing (flood of non-participants "voting"). I think there's a difference between someone who's been contributing all along participating in a consensus call by posting "+1" and someone whom you can't tell whether or not actually read the draft posting "+1" and it would be surprising indeed if the person responsible for determining consensus (the chair) treated them as equal in weight. Actually, come to think of it, we've seen a certain amount of this concerning the draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request draft. Anyway, I take the situation that John's describing as annoying but not an actual problem - we don't decide by voting. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf