Re: Recognizing Consensus

[Bob Stewart <[e-mail]>]

>I do have one concern.   The world may change while you are away on
>vacation.  When you return, the group, because of your silence, assumed 
>there were no objections.  

But you still have your email record of the discussion you missed, and nothing
is ever completely done.

>In meetings, you are expected to be around 
>*during the meeting* to have your voice heard.  

This assumes that you can get to the meeting.

>This approach expects that
>you are attached to the net *ALL the time* if your voice is to be heard.

It does assume that you will eventually catch up on the email you find most
important.

>But again, I believe some level of consensus can be achieved if you
>recognize this deficiency and claim e-mail consensus but not absolute 
>consensus.

There is no such thing as absolute consensus, but my personal opinion is that
email consensus, established as I suggested, with clear statements and calls
for disagreement, is more stable than meeting consensus, since more people can
attend email more regularly than can attend meetings.

	Bob