Re: consensus and anonymity

[sob at harvard.edu (Scott O. Bradner)]

> If our consensus process is not independently and openly verifiable, we 
> might as well close shop!

a hum in a WG meeting is subject to the perceptions of the people
in the room 

but its not clear that a fully verifiable process is needed since we
specifically try to do rough consensus not majority vote - all we 
need to be able to verify is that "most" people support a path 
- if a proposal gets blocked by a secret whisper in the ear of
the WG chair then things are very broken indeed

if the result of a secret whisper results in the chair brings up
topics for public discussion I'm not all that worried

Scott

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