Re: deadlock problem

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Michael StJohns wrote:
...
> In the context of the confirmation, if there are two dissents (e.g. we don't want to decide yet), the IAB can take NO action.
> E.g. it can neither confirm, nor reject.
> 
> The rule as written in the IAB charter is an interesting statement of desire, but pretty useless when applied to situations
> where the IAB must absolutely come to some decision.

True, unless the IAB chooses to exercise common sense.

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> 
> So... Brian, do you expect the IAB charter to be a normative reference for the NOMCOM document?  The ISOC charter?

No. I think we should simply avoid the potential for inconsistency by
*not* defining IAB or ISOC voting rules in two different places. That doesn't
imply a normative reference. But I've said that often enough now. Ultimately 
it doesn't matter, because if common sense can't be relied to resolve potential deadlocks, then no amount of document tweaking
will help us.

Therefore, I won't object to the A) version at last call. 

   Brian