Re: Is shared generally agreed, then?

[Laurent BERNARD <lbernard@artinternet.fr>]

Also :
a voting process requires reliable identification and count of voting people.
Even I could vote with at least half a dozen different mail-accounts.
Then a vote wouldn't be reliable at all, and certainly not representative.

'would be nice, but won't work, IMHO.

At 12:53 PM 1/6/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Dave,
>
>  I believe that the refrence to voting was in respect to people
>on this list.
>
>Dave Crocker wrote:
>> 
>> >There will be no convincing concensus without a vote, only divided
>> >opinions.  I do not understand why this idea was quickly shot down.  It is
>> >the only way to find out what percentage of people support each issue.  It
>> >is one of the corner stones of democracy..
>> 
>>         Please review IETF materials concerning voting
<http://www.ietf.org>.
>> 
>>         The simple explanation is that voting requires membership and there
>> is no "membership" of the relevant population, from which to derive a vote.


Laurent BERNARD
"Not knowing it couldn't be done, he went ahead and did it"