From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 14:55:32 CST
On 2/20/03 3:42 PM, Russ Allbery at <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Kohn <dan@dankohn.com> writes:
>
>> Dan> I'd like to suggest that the WG take the following straw poll,
>
>> I'd like to suggest that the WG does no such thing until it once again
>> has a chair.
>
> Yeah.
Ditto.
> Plus, polls have not in the past been particularly useful in
> actually resolving issues on this working group. (Observe, for example,
> that now there's a proposal to re-run a poll that we already had before.)
> Part of me feels like the large number of polls we've gone through is
> clear-cut evidence of lack of consensus; if we'd been reaching consensus,
> we wouldn't need polls.
I don't agree -- I think it shows that some people are unwilling to agree
that it has been reached unless it agree's with their opinion. That's not
the same thing as lack of consensus.
-- J.B. Moreno