Re: SUO: SUO Procedures
West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE wrote:
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> Any comments? (silence is taken as consent).
Only on that last comment. Silence should not be taken as consent,
only that people's bandwidth is being taken up elsewhere. Until
you have some voting one is alone with one's assumptions. I learned
that one on the HTML WG, where I could never get a vote to be taken
in several years of trying since those in control of the process
didn't want to know the real tally and be forced to follow it (and
straw polls are dangerous when you can't get a real vote; they can
be used as a weapon to create a false consensus).
Wouldn't it be better to do what is now commonly done in most open
source projects, i.e., ask for a +- vote from everyone?
Murray
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Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage: the health and environmental
costs of war on Iraq, the report estimates that between 22,000 and
55,000 people - mainly Iraqi soldiers and civilians - died as a direct
result of the war.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3259489.stm
Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage? ...a euphemism for BushCo.