On 11/06/2013 09:24 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I'm wondering if the translation of this is: 'it's OK in this case because I (mostly) agree with the outcome', which of course will inevitably lead (someday) to: 'if we ever do a non-consensus decision, and I'm on the losing side of that one, I won't be anywhere near as happy that we threw out that particular baby'.
Not really. It's just that my experience has been that 1) it's absolutely the case that the IETF does not reach all "management" decisions through consensus decision- making processes, and 2) it is impossible to reach consensus among thousands of people of diverse backgrounds on nearly any non-trivial matter on which reasonable people can disagree, and relying on the ability to do so leads to either calcification or disingenuous wording of questions. Melinda