Re: consensus and anonymity

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2007-06-01 18:52, Michael Thomas wrote:
...
> part. Still, I think it's a myth that these hums are *just* the sense of 
> the room
> and no more. They're clearly a lot more than that as it almost always 
> brings
> a conclusion to some point of contention, and when it's brought up again on
> the list you can almost always be guaranteed a "but we decided this in 
> Oslo!".

That's exactly when a good WG chair or AD *should* say: Yes, but now we have
a new technical issue that we need to analyze.

Of course, there's always scope for argument whether a an issue is really
new and really significant.

    Brian



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