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

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Fri, 11 November 2005 01:24 UTC

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:09:34 -0800
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: "Gray, Eric" <Eric.Gray@marconi.com>, pesci-discuss@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Pesci-discuss] For whom it may concern..
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--On 10. november 2005 21:12 -0200 "Gray, Eric" <Eric.Gray@marconi.com> 
wrote:

> Margaret,
>
> 	"Forge a consensus" was either a poorly chosen phrase, or a
> freudian slip, given the way that the IETF usually determines that
> a consensus has been achieved.

Given the sense of feeling hammered that I often have after having forged a 
particularly difficult consensus, I thought the term was perfect......

"forge" as in what a blacksmith does, not as in what a counterfeiter does.





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