Re: Not a simple question

[Ted Lemon <mellon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 4, 2018, at 3:58 PM, Scott O. Bradner <sob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

but the basic point is that not everyone needs to agree to progress a document
but a lot of people do (just what % was specifically not defined)

The problem with this is that then it's just voting.   That's the problem that Pete was trying to address in the document—there's too much of a culture of voting at the IETF, and this has some bad consequences, as we've seen.   The working groups that (IMHO) do the best work tend more in the direction of doing things Pete's way.