Re: [wg-c] Election of co-chair

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

Kent Crispin wrote:

> It's perhaps worth noting this tiny bit of protocol.  Email does not
> have the same level of reliability as eye contact across a room; for
> any particular message you cannot assume that everyone has read it,
> or even that it has been delivered to their mailbox.  The fine point
> here is that for purposes of formal agreement with a particular
> person, a confirming message is required.

Yes, and it also obligates you to wait reasonable periods of time to gain that
formal agreement, particularly when you know that a key person is on vacation.

Do you want to obtain people's agreement, or do you want to fake it? That's the
question you have to face honestly, Kent.

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