RE: Weak turnout : was-> A proposal for moving ahead on BC models

["Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>]

At 04:47 PM 1/22/2003 +0100, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> Maybe it is just your (stupid) AD who does not understand
> how it is possible that these days we seem to only be
> able to get VERY FEW people to speak up (pro or against
> or even declaring a don't care) when WG chairs ask for
> opinions to try and gauge consensus. How are they
> expected to read if teh WG indeed has consensus on anything?
> How do they know that the majority of the WG members have
> even read (parts of) an I-D that they want to pass to their
> ADs for consideration as an RFC.
>
> I can accept if there are only a small set of people that do
> the extual writing and word-smitting, but I would hope that
> many people are willing to read, try to understand, and to
> then give a yes, no, don't case answer when asked.
>
> Thanks,
> Bert
        Point taken. I agree that there is no question that
folks need to jump in more.  The point I was making is that
people have discussed these documents quite a bit, at
least in the past, so the current apathy is not IMHO an
indication of lack of support for the documents.

        --Tom


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas D. Nadeau [mailto:tnadeau@cisco.com]
> > Sent: woensdag 22 januari 2003 15:15
> > To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> > Cc: te-wg@ops.ietf.org
> > Subject: RE: Weak turnout : was-> A proposal for moving ahead on BC
> > models
> >
> >
> >
> >          How has this discussion gone down the road of
> > being a discussion of consensus or not?  There has been
> > lots and lots of discussion on this topic, it is part of
> > the charter, and has been discussed at numerous
> > TE WG meetings over the past few years.
> >
> >          --Tom
> >
> > >I would contend that if we onlu have 9 reactions out of 1100
> > >or so WG subscribers/members that there is NO WG consensus
> > >to work on this topic.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Bert
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