RE: [Pesci-discuss] For whom it may concern..

Hi Joel,

Joel Halpern wrote:
> I believe that process proposals need to be an exception to this.
> As far as I can tell, the community will never reach rough consensus on
> any of the major process changes.
> (It was hard enough to get rough consensus on minor changes.)
> As I said at the meeting, while such an absence can be used as an excuse
> for not making any major changes, that would seem to be an inappropriate
> response.

I think that the community can (and does) reach consensus on major changes
when they are really needed.

Last year, we reached community consensus to reorganize the entire
administrative and financial structure of the IETF and to create a new IETF
leadership body.  IMO, this happened because the community was convinced
that change was necessary, and there was sufficient pressure to fix the
problem(s) that we were able to forge a consensus.

In some other cases, we don't have that pressure (yet), so we have not
reached consensus to make other specific major changes. 

Margaret

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