[MPEG-OTSPEC] Consensus Protocol

Dave Crossland dcrossland at google.com
Wed Aug 26 06:41:31 CEST 2020


In thread RE: [MPEG-OTSPEC] Updates to specification, On Wed, Aug 19, 2020
at 2:22 PM Peter Constable <pgcon6 at msn.com> wrote:

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> I have pointed out in the past and again this morning in another thread
> that a weakness in the current AHG process is that it’s possible for things
> to go into OFF without really having had a lot of review from implementers.
> Not that there hasn’t been reasonable opportunity for review, but more that
> the engagement is passive: a proposal can be made and incorporated unless
> objections are raised, with silence treated as implicit consent. But I
> don’t think it can really be considered consent if a proposal wasn’t
> actually reviewed: silence gives no indication up, down or sideways. I’d
> prefer to see more thumbs up on anything before adoption.
>

Hmm... Whose thumbs ought to go up, and if someone gives a thumbs down,
what then?

Vlad, I'd like to request from you that, as chair, you write down and share
the full AHG consensus protocol you want the group to use, as a proposal,
and see if the group can agree to it, according to itself :)
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