<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2012-01-07, at 18:01 PM, SM wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><blockquote type="cite">Adiel Akplogan commenting on the relative weights of mailing list and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">face-to-face meeting comments said that only comments on the RPD mailing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">list made before the face-to-face meeting should only be equal to those<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">at face-to-face meetings.<br></blockquote><br>The sentence is not clear. I suggest asking Mr Adiel Akplogan whether the sentence reflects what he said.</div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>In substance what I said is that same comments before a face to face meeting </div><div>where consensus is reached can't be of the same weight during the last call. </div><div>If consensus is declared after discussion at the face to face meeting, only </div><div>NEW and major arguments/issues should stop a policy during the last call. The </div><div>last call period should be as straight forward as possible, and not another </div><div>round to re-discuss the whole policy with points already raised and discussed </div><div>(or not) before the face to face meeting. </div><div><br></div><div>Discussions and comments before + during face to face meeting should weight </div><div>more than comments during lats call. Doing that we push people to raise their</div><div>point before or during the face to face meeting where consensus will be sought.</div><div><br></div><div>We should be clear about when to close the loop, and it is in my sense the </div><div>responsibility of the PDWG co-chairs to ensure that. </div><div><br></div><div>- a.</div></body></html>