"Binding" Votes

[Recordon, David]

I'd hope that the authors would pay attention to the larger vote and in
the case where there is disagreement go back over all the reasoning
again and possibly change their opinion.

--David 

-----Original Message-----
From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Mike Glover
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:19 PM
To: specs at openid.net
Subject: Re: "Binding" Votes


  How does this effectively differ from 'only authors get a binding
vote'?  If everyone agrees with the authors, the authors get what they
want.  If they disagree, the authors still get what they want.

-mike

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:09:01 -0700
"Recordon, David" <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:

> Just to add a little clarity to this.  My proposal is that anyone on 
> this list can have a "binding" vote in all votes.  At the end of the 
> vote, the results will be posted with the votes from the listed 
> authors separated from the total.  If the outcome of the two groups is

> the same, obviously there is a prevalent choice.  If the outcome 
> differs, then it will be up to the authors to make the final decision.
> 
> --David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On 
> Behalf Of Recordon, David
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:33 PM
> To: specs at openid.net
> Subject: "Binding" Votes
> 
> Realized we haven't really decided who has a binding vote for spec 
> proposals.  Up to this point the listed authors have been making all 
> final decisions, but we also didn't have a mailing list like this one 
> with a smaller distribution and technical membership.
> 
> So the question comes up, should only the listed authors (Brad, Josh, 
> Dick, and myself) have binding votes or can the vote of anyone on this

> list be binding?  Up to now I've been counting votes in terms of 
> anyone who votes on this list.
> 
> I don't have a problem continuing down this path until it becomes a 
> problem.  I will however capture vote results broken up between 
> authors and the larger community.  I'd imagine that in most cases the 
> vote result will be the same.  In the case when it isn't, I'd propose 
> we leave it to the authors to further discuss the proposal and 
> reasoning behind both sides, and then ultimately make the final
decision.
> 
> Does that sound alright to everyone?
> 
> --David
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