From: Noveck, Dave (Dave.Noveck@netapp.com)
Date: 12/12/02-04:22:22 PM Z
Message-ID: <C8CF60CFC4D8A74E9945E32CF096548A0729BA@SILVER.nane.netapp.com> From: "Noveck, Dave" <Dave.Noveck@netapp.com> Subject: RE: Proposed charter addition for NFS Version 4 Working Group Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:22:22 -0800 R. J. Atkinson wrote: > On Thursday, Dec 12, 2002, at 16:31 America/Montreal, Robert Thurlow > wrote: > > We're making these > > changes because we have a charter to do so and consensus on > > what the changes are, and we hope to arrive at a better place. > > It really scares me that anyone uses the charter permitting the > work as the justification for the doing the work. By this reasoning, > if I'm permitted to walk off a cliff, therefore I must do so > and hope to arrive at a better place. This is a complete mis-statement as the text you yourself quote above shows. Rob gave three reasons to make certain changes (whatever they are, I don't even know at this point), only one of which was the fact that the charter permitted them. He said we are doing X because of A (permission), B (consensus), and C (motivation). Then you say it scares you when someone says they are doing X because they have A (permission). That might be scary if it were the case but it isn't. Clearly, the issue of permission is relevant here, as you would be the first to say if the charter denied permission for those changes. So Rob was quite reasonable in mentioning it as part of the discussion, but it was certainly not given as the sole or even the major reason to make them. I see that there is no intent to deceive here. You quote the text that shows your interpretation (if I can call it that) is way off-base. Nevertheless, the facts of the matter are clear, or should be, to anyone.
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