RE: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-08-04 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Moore or for that matter _Atlas Shrugged_? (not that I agree with Rand on everything, but she had this one pegged) I beg to differ, the Middle ages demonstrated amply that the vast majority of the populace are not going

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pekka Savola wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: What is the context of technical astuteness? How do you compare people with different technical focuses? You can't. Giving ADs a private veto (private in the sense of not discussed in public) seems to compare technical astuteness and

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
I am puzzled by this thread which only document the way the Internet standard process is _not_ respected and how to fix the problem in _not_ respecting it. The discussion should either lead to calls of order, or to formal amendments to the Internet standard process. I never shared in an IETF

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-06 Thread Ralph Droms
Comments in line... On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:48 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: But, I don't see how it applies here. I'm not claiming Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Yakov explained it better than I have: for each AD there is more than one person

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: What is the context of technical astuteness? How do you compare people with different technical focuses? You can't. Giving ADs a private veto (private in the sense of not discussed in public) seems to compare technical astuteness and assign more weight to

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-05 Thread Ralph Droms
Keith - thanks for the pointer to Harrison Bergeron. Coincidentally, I was trying to recall this story in a conversation recently and had forgotten the details and the author... But, I don't see how it applies here. I'm not claiming Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Yakov explained it

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-05 Thread Keith Moore
Keith - thanks for the pointer to Harrison Bergeron. Coincidentally, I was trying to recall this story in a conversation recently and had forgotten the details and the author... But, I don't see how it applies here. I'm not claiming Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Yakov explained

Re: straightforward, reasonable, and fair

2005-05-05 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: But, I don't see how it applies here. I'm not claiming Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Yakov explained it better than I have: for each AD there is more than one person in the IETF who is more technically astute than that AD. So, why should the IETF