- From: M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 16:37:55 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, montulli@mozilla.com
At 4:49 PM 12/8/95, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >"Rough consensus" can only be tested by polling the list. What? If Dave Kristol announces a new draft to this list and no one raises objections, that sure sounds like "rough consensus" to me. If we poll list members for their opinions, we discover the majority opinion, which is more precise than consensus. I agree that the "Host" poll was a useful way to resolve a contentious issue. This is simply not such a case. Lou is the only person I recall objecting to the most recent state-info draft, and he has not backed up his objections with a counter-proposal nor with a submission of the Netscape cookie proposal (either of which I would like to see happen). If I am somehow just wrong that tacit approval equals rough consensus, and if Roy is right that polling is the only accepted consensus-building method, then _it needs to happen more often_. M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
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