Re: TC voting and amendment procedure
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:36:30PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> But it does suggest that we ought to do formally proposing resolutions
> and amendments by writing draft CFVs. A draft ballot paper would give
> dissenters a chance to add their own option, with short or long
> explanatory text as needed.
FWIW, this was a factor in my failure to vote, which was effectively a
time-starved "further discussion" by abstention. The constitution may allow
any one of us to call for a vote without any minimum discussion period, but
that doesn't mean I think it's a very effective way to carry out business;
especially for complex issues such as this one, I think we need to have a
good idea of what the consensus is first and call the vote only when we
think we're ready to ratify that position.
In the present case neither of the non-FD options are satisfactory to me
because as I wrote in <20070923084028.GE22117@dario.dodds.net>, I think
rationale here is very important. There's no question in my mind that it's
wrong to standardize on RFC3484 s 6 rule 9 for IPv4 addresses, but
overriding the Debian maintainers without a coherent plan to get this
addressed at the IETF level would to my mind be something of a Pyrrhic
victory, solving the immediate problem with the Debian mirrors and similar
infrastructure but saddling the glibc maintainers with a delta indefinitely.
And a recommendation to the IETF is going to count for more if it comes with
a rationale than if it's four (or however many) people voting that the rule
should be ignored without even being able to agree on the nature of the
problem.
At present I remain optimistic that we can reach a consensus on a document
that incorporates everyone's concerns, which is why I think further
discussion is worthwhile. However, in light of the current rate of progress
on this bug, if we can agree informally that this is in principle what we
should do I'm willing to be persuaded to postponing the rationale to a
separate vote.
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