Re: [Pesci-discuss] Back to the decision-making thing

Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com> Fri, 11 November 2005 15:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Pesci-discuss] Back to the decision-making thing
From: Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com>
To: Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>
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On 11/10/05 4:47 PM, "Scott W Brim" <swb@employees.org> wrote:
> We've been around this one a few times, eh?  Is it possible in the
> current situation?

I don't know, but I do know that the extent to which people are
being expected to suck it up when they're unhappy with an outcome
is the extent to which we've already moved away from consensus
decision-making towards voting.  I think that's almost certainly
necessary, but it seems to me to be a somewhat unfortunate
artifact of this tacit shift towards voting is that instead of
using clear criteria for determining an outcome (for example,
simple majority, some other threshold) we're using I-know-it-
when-I-see-it criteria.

Melinda

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