Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-13 Thread Scott Bradner
So - Scott, can you confirm that you think quorum rules should be in the BCP? Rob, can you confirm that you think they should not be? imo - if rules for voting are in the document then quorum rules should be but I'm fine with the idea that the document say 1/ general method is

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Spencer Dawkins wrote: Brian, John, Avri and Spencer: Can you state if you have an opinion about whether or not the quorum rules should be in the document or not? Let's get this point settled before we dig into what the quorum rules should be - if they don't go into the BCP, the whole text of

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-13 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:22:58 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: ... So - Scott, can you confirm that you think quorum rules should be in the BCP? Rob, can you confirm that you think they should not be? hat editor=off just-another-bozo=on Sorry, I had missed that there was a direct

No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
In the -03 version of the document, the following text occurs: 3.4 IAOC Decision Making The IAOC attempts to reach all decisions unanimously. If unanimity cannot be achieved, the IAOC chair may conduct informal polls to determine the consensus of the group. In cases where it is

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, My personal, generic, preference is to put as little specific text into the BCP as possible. Broad principles, yes. But anything very specific, especially anything that is likely to need tuning, should be in the BCP only if there are really strong reasons why that is necessary. So I'd

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Brian, John, Avri and Spencer: Can you state if you have an opinion about whether or not the quorum rules should be in the document or not? Let's get this point settled before we dig into what the quorum rules should be - if they don't go into the BCP, the whole text of #746 gets passed as