RE: RFC 3929 on Alternative Decision Making Processes for Consensus-Blocked Decisions in the IETF (fwd)

Matthew Elvey [[email protected]] wrote:
> MARID specific comment:
> What happened here doesn't seem to be a failure, but rather was a
> success in the following sense: There was not sufficient maturity in the
> proposals for a rough consensus to be reached that the proposals were
> adequate to meet the bare minimum of goals that they needed to meet.
> The process brought the fact to light that the proposals were
> inadequate.  Many of us weren't aware of this early on.  3929 seems to
> assume that a failure to reach a rough consensus must mean there's a
> problem in the process, when in fact it could be in the proposals.

...or in the participants' objectives.  Or in all three of them.