[AFS3-std] Second Draft of Standardisation Document

[Steve Simmons]

On Aug 27, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Rerunning the election, in whatever form, is likely to be time
>> consuming, and probably result in a vanishingly small turnout the  
>> second
>> time round. Should we just give the outgoing chair a casting vote?
>
> Personally, I'd be comfortable with just flipping a coin.
>
> One way to flip a coin would be to give the position to whoever's  
> MD5 hash
> of their name lexicographically sorts earlier.  It has the minor  
> potential
> drawback that the tiebreaker would be known in advance, though.

I'd prefer that tie means fail. This is supposed to be setting  
standards,
which ought to be agreed at a near-consensus level. If we're tied,  
clearly
we've got no consensus.