Re: Voting (again)

To: Yakov Rekhter <yakov at juniper.net>
Subject: Re: Voting (again)
From: Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:19:38 +0200
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Yakov,

Perhaps the IETF traditional motto, "rough consensus and working
code" should be revised to make it clear that the "rough consensus"
goes only up to a certain point, but after that point the IETF
operates solely by a decree from the IESG.

You and I were both in the room when the Ethernet-MIB WG LOUDLY objected to Jon Postel having tweaked the Ethernet-MIB to properly align definitions with what the IEEE counters were. The WG chair was rip roaring upset. Here you had rough consensus and running code. How dare others interfere! Of course it was a broken spec, but nevermind that! The WG knew better.

Good thing *someone* was minding the store.

Eliot

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