Bug#636783: TC casting vote

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Subject: Bug#636783: TC casting vote
From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 18:54:54 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 21374.4122.154474.480056@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (Ian Jackson's message of "Thu, 22 May 2014 15:56:26 +0100")
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]] Ian Jackson 

> We have had some discussion about this.  No-one seems to have objected
> to the suggestion that the DPL, rather than the TC chairman, should
> have a casting vote in TC decisions.

I think it's a bad idea.  The CTTE is a technical body.  The DPL is a
political leader.  Having political leaders make technical decisions is
bad policy.

It also means the CTTE is no longer self-contained and half the point of
having a chairman disappears.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

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