Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] poll - Too early to ask these questions

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all,

thanks for all the active thinking about the poll.  sorry if i caused great 
consternation.  i just got back from a lovely all-day hike in the Smoky 
Mountains, so people shouldn't read anything complicated into my sluggish reply.

here's a comment from Mikey's traditional viewpoint that the glass is half full:

- regarding the issue of timing.  this is just a mechanism to determine where 
we're at on the path towards consensus and shouldn't be viewed as a "vote" in 
the traditional majority-rules way.  i've found that sometimes the level of 
consensus is higher than i expected when doing a straw-poll of a group like 
this.  thus i'm of the view that it's never too early to start learning where 
we're at on consensus.  who knows what we'll find out.

- one of the goals of the poll is to give proposal-advocates some feedback on 
the strong points and weak points of their work -- places where people agree 
with their ideas and, much more valuable, places where people disagree with 
them.  if i were a proposal-advocate type person, i'd be *really* interested in 
that negative feedback and calling *those* folks up to try to figure out 
compromises.

- i agree that we've got a ways to go on understanding the proposals, and the 
differences between them.  Roberto and i have been puzzling about a good way 
forward on that.  we've also been thinking that we're coming up on the time 
when we should start dissecting the pieces of the proposals and putting those 
pieces side by side so that we can move beyond the "beauty contest" phase of 
the work.  it cheers me up to learn that we're not the only people who feel 
that way.  :-)

- i debated putting in some "what are your views regarding VI?" and "what is 
your stake in VI?" type questions and sheared away from it, partly because i 
wasn't sure whether people would find them useful and partly because i couldn't 
frame them very well.  Berry's list seems like a good start to me -- i'd like 
to hear more about what people would like to see asked along those lines.

so i'll leave my lame poll up, folks can participate if they want and i'll fold 
your alpha-test feedback into Revision 0.9.2 next week.  :-)

thanks!

mikey

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