RE: Alternative (H)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On 22. mai 2003 08:12 -0700 Christian Huitema 
<huitema@windows.microsoft.com> wrote:

> This text has the advantage of not conflicting with ISOC's by-laws,
> which is good. However, the algorithm as presented does not completely
> resolve the deadlock problem. As proposed, the phrase "failing which the
> candidate is considered to be rejected" seem to only apply to the case
> where the CB has no defined decision rule and resorts to majority
> voting.

I started to put that in, but then discovered that the text I was editing 
from had added this:

> The confirming body must make its decision within a reasonable
> timeframe.  The results from the confirming body must be reported
> promptly to the nominating committee.

which translates pretty well to "thou shalt not deadlock".