At 10:24 +1000 24/6/98, Simon Hackett wrote:

>In other words, Robert, would a process with a measurable outcome (for
>instance, an electronic vote, one vote per person, held by polling members
>of this list) in which the vote was at least 80% in favour of a specific
>outcome, be sufficient for you to deem it to be 'consensus' and to agree to
>it?

The danger I see here is that the members of this list may not be
representative of all parties who would be effected by the outcome
of the vote.

I imagine 'interested parties' at this stage are probably dominated
by prospective commercial DNS users or registrars. Those people may not
make decisions that are in the best interests of future DNS users.

Also, if past experience is anything to go by, 80% support in this forum
for any course of action would be a pipe dream.


That said, I certainly agree that some targets to work towards need
to be defined.

Yours sincerely,
Richard Archer.