On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Dave Cridland <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Calls for adoption are particularly interesting cases, because if there's no > response, then as chairman I have to assume there's no interest. This could > be because of lack of time, of course, but if merely checking the draft over > for adoption isn't worthy of effort, then I can't really expect that once > adopted, people will suddenly find the time to do serious work. > > In other cases, however, silence can mean assent, or at least no interest in > arguing against. If a particular open issue in a draft is resolved by a > small group (or even a single person) picking a solution that works for > them, then an absence of complaints, despite not being quite the same, nor > as desirable, as enthusiastic and vocal support, still leads to the same > conclusion. One thing I've seen in WGs that I like is if there is a lot of silence, the chair says what s/he assumes silence implies. "If you're silent, I'm going to assume that means you don't have any objection", etc.