Re: [wg-review] Preliminary Report - Consensus

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/16/01 1:39:10 PM, Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com> wrote:

>Questions that keeps coming up for me are:
>How do we get more people to participate in such polls?

That's easy, make it a "work group" condition.  The purpose of a wg is to gather input for an output.  If people show up and don't offer any kind of input, 
what is their purpose in being there? as a head count?  What sort of work is supposed to go on here? non-work?  How do we measure work? input and 
outpout.  It happens every day in the real world.  people have a job, they got to work at a certain time;  their employers pay them for their input because 
they expect to make a profit on the output.  What's the problem here?

>How can we consistently frame questions and statements for polling in the 
>cleanest, least-slanted way?

An elected Polling Committee should be established.

>How should we clearly differentiate between polls to provide information 
>for the WG, and votes on specific topics?

Differentiate between them by clearly stating that one is an opinion poll for information gathering purposes, while a vote to
pass a motion would be clearly labeled and carried out as one.   

>Should the concept of polling be included in a formal procedures 
>recommendation to the NC or BoD?

Indubitably.

>What are the tradeoffs between poll security and widespread availability of 
>raw poll data?

An established WG with prerogatives to gather information from widely publicized polls would have voting privileges.  This for each issue a WG is 
established to "work on"

>>That said, I believe the poll result is fairly representative of the 
>>people speaking up in this discussion, and probably a fair reflection of 
>>the feelings of a lot of people who have touched or participated in this 
>>process.
>
>I wouldn't claim more than that either.

I would agree.  Considering no rules for participation were established right from the outset, I'd say we didn't do too badly.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.


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