Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> --On mandag, januar 02, 2006 18:10:15 +0200 Yaakov Stein 
> <yaakov_s at rad.com> wrote:
>
> > The only thing I am sure about is
> > that
> > consensus on this list is for keeping everything exactly as it is.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure there's no such consensus.
>
> I do, however, see a rather strong consensus-of-the-speakers against 
> using MS-Word document format for anything "official".

I think we need to tackle this whole issue, if we do decide to
tackle it, in a much more systematic way.

- what are our functional requirements?
- which of them are not met today?
- what are the possible solutions, and what is their practical
  and operational cost?
- which, if any, solutions should we adopt, on what timescale?

I believe that if we took a systematic approach like that, the issue
of how we determine consensus would be broken into enough small
steps that it really wouldn't be an issue.

    Brian


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