Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith,

Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 5:43:40 PM, you wrote:
>> Had Dan been participating in the discussions, 10 years ago, no doubt he
>> could have ensured that the design was perfect.

Keith> yep.  and so obviously perfect that he would have easily won consensus.

It's always trivial to criticise someone else's design, whereas it is
very difficult to work constructively in a consensus-based design
process and achieve something productive.

So it's not surprising that some folks choose the role of constant
critic, even to the point of damaging the process.


d/
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