Re: Is shared generally agreed, then?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Laurent,

  Please read below your comments.

Laurent BERNARD wrote:
> 
> 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.

  This is not really a valid argument.  Each E-Mail id has a name
associated
with it.  Not a sound premise.  Therefore invalid argument.

  A simple statment validating each participant on the list for ONE
E-Mail
id would suffice for these perposes.  Failier or seccumvention of such
would
mean expulsion from the list and their vote under any ID they may have
use
not counted.
> 
> 'would be nice, but won't work, IMHO.

  Could work, if handled properly by IAHC.
> 
> 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"

Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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