On pe, 2010-08-13 at 17:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I would read "approval" in this context as approval by all the people who > are interested in using something like DEP-5. In other words, consensus > that, should one want to do this sort of thing, this is the way in which > we're going to do it, with explicit acknowledgement that some people > aren't interested in doing this sort of thing at all. That is exactly right.