- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:54:12 -0700
- To: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Cc: Matt Womer <mdw@w3.org>, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Geolocation Working Group WG <public-geolocation@w3.org>, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Rigo Wenning wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Doug Turner wrote: >> Matt, Chairs, Andrei, Can we take a formal vote on this to put to >> bed this issue, or must we continue to argue about the same thing >> for another 8 months? > > Just to remind you that the process works by consensus, not by formal > votes other than by the Advisory Committee. You don't even have to > unpack the (in)formal vote. But a short note in your issue tracking > tool with a pointer to this thread would be nice. http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies#Votes A group SHOULD only conduct a vote to resolve a substantive issue after the Chair has determined that all available means of reaching consensus through technical discussion and compromise have failed, and that a vote is necessary to break a deadlock. Am I misreading this?
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