Brian E Carpenter wrote:
That's quite correct. But when judging the rough consensus of the IETF,
I believe that the IESG is fully entitled to consider whether multiple
similar messages from people who have rarely if ever participated in
IETF activities carry as much weight as messages from active
participants.
One would hope that their respective roles in the larger community would
also be given appropriate weight.
The likes of implementers (of protocols), whether in the open-source
community
or as an employee of a vendor of hardware or software, should be given
as much,
if not more, consideration.
Ditto folks who are involved in designing/building host operating
systems or
equivalent embedded systems.
Remember, the whole "Internet" thing is only a way for computers to talk...
and every "router" or "gateway", is basically a general-purpose computer
optionally with some extra, special-purpose hardware attached.
Brian D
