[saag] A few comments

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Dear Ms Lange,

I read the comment which was sent to the TLS mailing list.  I'll 
comment on the following:

At 06:55 AM 31-07-2026, Tanja Lange wrote:
>The requests I've seen, starting right after the chairs announced their
>decision that there was consensus in favor of the document, are asking for
>which input was discarded or counted higher or lower. I cannot do the
>"homework" of checking this because I don't know the mechanism used.

There isn't a defined mechanism on how to decide whether a document 
is ready for publication.  The practice has been to do a working 
group last call and assess the feedback.  I remember that you 
reviewed a draft (it had some crypto stuff) which I submitted a while 
ago.  I would most likely give your feedback some weight on the 
technical aspects.  I would also do something similar for other 
participants.  The weighing would be on the technical points.

If a technical point was not adequately considered, the person who 
raised the point might raise it again during the Last Call.  If there 
were several points which were not adequately considered, there would 
be more people raising them during the Last Call.  It makes sense (to 
me) to inform the community about the concerns.

The tricky part is finding a balance instead of having a majority 
calling the shots [1].  Let's assume that I did a count and ended up 
with 51% in favour (re. RFC 2418, Page 13).  If that was any type of 
consensus, it's not that different from voting and it is definitely 
not anything close to finding a balance.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/shot