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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
To: Roger Fajman <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
cc: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: Getting back on track
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Aug 1995 21:19:35 EDT." <199508250121.VAA16603@CS.UTK.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 10:46:20 +0200
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Folks,
I agree that the procedure Keith proposed is probably so complex that
it will be ignored.

I suggest another method:

- SOMEONE (VOLUNTEER HERE, PLEASE; LINE FORMS ON THE LEFT) takes
  responsibility for maintaining a chart of issues.
  This chart MUST be net-accessibe, and updated each day, not each month.
  Possibly it can be updated by all of us somehow??????? (Webforms?)

- Each time someone wants to raise an issue, he mails the list; the maintainer
  (or the instigator) puts it on the chart.

- The list discusses the issue in its usual chaotic fashion; this might lead
  to a better issue formulation, or possibly to a suggested solution; THESE
  TWO THINGS MUST BE SEPARATE.
  Changes that have rough consensus are entered on the chart, both in the
  "problem" and the "solution" box.

- The Chair can rule on any issue that it is Out Of Scope; this is reflected
  in the chart. Decisions can be appealed (if mailed screaming doesn't help)
  to the ADs, of course.

- Once debate over an issue has died down, any reopening of the issue MUST
  contain a suggested change in the wording on the chart.

This role has in the past been done using "requirements" internet-drafts; I 
think the number of issues to be discussed here makes that approach difficult;
we need a more dynamic mechanism.

The chart should be seeded with the Danvers list.

Comments? Volunteers?

                   Harald A