Re: CONSENSUS: should there be term limits?

[Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>]

    Date:        Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:00:43 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
    From:        James M Galvin <galvin+ietf-nomcom@eListX.com>
    Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0203171647160.-561305@oemcomputer.ietf53.cw.net>

  | I believe the consensus for the question of whether or not there should
  | be term limits is:
  | 
  |     there should not be term limits.

  | This discussion is closed.
  | 
  | If you disagree with the determined consensus please reply to this
  | message on the list.

I think you have leapt to the conclusion that will eventually be
reached (and which I happen to agree with), but I think you leapt
far too quickly.

Deciding consensus on the basis of less than 3 days discussion
(your original message with the Subject was Thu Mar 14, 21:27 -0500,
your "consensus reached" was Sun Mar 17, 17:00 -0500) is just way
too quick, in any circumstances.

When those three days are the three days immediately preceding an IETF
meeting (and 2 of them are a weekend), when many people could be expected
to be travelling, this leaping is really just too much.

If this process is every going to achieve anything that anyone would
even consider as half way reasonable, it needs to at least pretend to
observe some kind of open discussion.

kre