- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:29:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "David G. Durand" <david@dynamicDiagrams.com>
- cc: XML-uri@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David G. Durand wrote: > We already had a vote of the membership, which is the usual way to > resolve an issue when consensus is failing due to disagreements in > principle. It's rare that anyone can happily compromise on their > principles, and that's why voting is available: to decide the > question when someone simply has to lose the argument, and a decision > has to be made. We could also have an autocratic resolution, where a > choice is simply imposed from the top-down. As I have said before: when consensus methods fail, there are four choices: autocracy, oligarchy, democracy, or apathy. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know
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