<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m not sure what more I can write.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I proposed the vote text around the time I sent the notification here: no comments.</div><div class="">I created the vote, early in the voting period, the clarification was sought and made.</div><div class="">All OMC members registered their vote and the vote closed early.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The criteria for being valid as per the <a href="https://www.openssl.org/policies/omc-bylaws.html" class="">bylaws</a> was met. As votes go, this one was quick taking two days of the two weeks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Abstentions are frequent in votes for a number of reasons.</div><div class="">The reasons each person uses are not revealed and not asked for.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jan 2020, at 6:07 am, Benjamin Kaduk <<a href="mailto:kaduk@mit.edu" class="">kaduk@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Pauli,<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 09:34:40PM +1000, Dr Paul Dale wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The OMC vote is closed.<br class=""><br class="">The vote text being:<br class=""><br class="">The legacy provider should be disabled by default in 3.0<br class=""><br class="">With the clarification that "disabled" in this context means "not loaded”.<br class=""><br class="">The vote passed (two for, one against, four abstain)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It's good to have a decision here, but I'm kind of worried about the four<br class="">abstains -- it's easy for me to leap to a conclusion that the individuals<br class="">in question just didn't want to to spend the time to come to a considered<br class="">position, even though this issue has substantial potential impact for our<br class="">userbase. I'm trying to not make faulty assumptions, so some greater<br class="">clarity on the circumstances would be helpful, if possible.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Ben<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>