[anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus" and "voting"...
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Nick Hilliard
nick at foobar.org
Sat May 9 23:36:35 CEST 2020
Hi Carlos, Carlos Friaças wrote on 09/05/2020 22:25: > On Sat, 9 May 2020, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 09/05/2020 15:23: >>> Having one might at least lay this discussion to rest once and for >>> all. I?ve seen variants of it for several years now. >> >> But imagine if someone contacted a bunch of their colleagues and said: >> "look, there's this policy proposal going on in RIPE AAWG and it would >> be really great if you could just join up on the mailing list and add >> in a +1, thanks!" >> >> Therein lies the problem - or at least one of the problems - with >> voting: it's wide open to manipulation. > > Same goes for "it takes only 2 or 3 voices to break consensus". > > Even if arguments are somewhat "creative"... no, and in fact this is the point of consensus. It depends on informed judgement and assessment, not a handful of dissenting voices, or people shouting, or votes or anything else. It's worth reading RFC 7282. There is a lot of wisdom in that document. >> In the sense that you're concerned that there's stalemate regarding >> some of these proposals, there isn't according to the PDP: no >> consensus is a legitimate and clear outcome, and when there is no >> consensus, the policy does not proceed. > > The *proposal* does not proceed... the policy can already be in place, > but remains unchanged. The existing reached consensus despite a number of dissenting voices :-) Personally, I think the policy does more harm than good, but it is what it is. I'm not going to put in a proposal to remove it because that probably wouldn't reach consensus and it would end up wasting working group time. Nick
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