From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 14:22:02 CDT
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Exactly. So maintaining that the current draft constitutes some sort of
> group consensus is rather disingenuous, if not quite dishonest. It's at
> best a group plurality, which is not the same thing.
Consensus does not mean that everyone agrees, only that the bulk of the
group agrees. That's why the IETF has procedures for sorting this kind of
thing out -- so that people who are persistently out of step with
mainstream opinion do get heard but don't indefinitely stall the whole
standards process.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net