On 2009-10-19, at 9:21 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:
Gary
Thanks. That strikes me as a fairly complex process.
Does anyone have any alternative suggestions? We need a simple model for reaching consensus here, that grows the community and adoption.
In practice, I've had experience with three processes; ISO, W3C/Oasis, and IETF process. ISO is institutional voting, with complex threshold rules. W3C and Oasis individual members vote. Of course, this means you have to define who's a member and thus gets a vote. In the W3C, you argue for a while and then the chair (co-chairs usually) assert what the consensus is. Informally consensus is considered to be the absence of sustained intense reasonable resistance. If you disagree you appeal to the Area Director, the IESG, the IAB and eventually the Internet Society (I may have that appeal chain out of order). I prefer the IETF model but all have been observed to work. -Tim