Re: deadlock problem

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 12:24 America/Montreal, Brian E Carpenter 
wrote:
> True, unless the IAB chooses to exercise common sense.

Brian,

	Lack of common sense has never been evident on the IAB, AFAIK.

	Despite that, deadlock HAS been evident.  One might legitimately
abstain for common sense reasons.  Individuals might legitimately have
different views on a given candidate for common sense reasons.  The
intersection of that has lead to deadlock under the current process rule
(and would lead to deadlock on the relevant section of the IAB Charter's
decision process, as several folks have outlined to this list).

	Repeating that common sense will avoid deadlock doesn't make that
statement true nor even make the two pieces of that claim related to 
each other.

> No. I think we should simply avoid the potential for inconsistency by
> *not* defining IAB or ISOC voting rules in two different places.

They are unrelated kinds of voting rules, so no inconsistency exists
right now -- nor would any of the proposed edits create an 
inconsistency.

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

Thanks.

Ran Atkinson
rja@extremenetworks.com