I have been sharing this Internet draft by Pete Resnick with various people and getting very positive feed-back which has encouraged me to share more widely:

        Title           : On Consensus and Humming in the IETF
        Author(s)       : Pete Resnick
        Filename        : draft-resnick-on-consensus-05.txt
        Pages           : 15
        Date            : 2013-10-04

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/i-d-announce/current/msg53974.html

The text is available at:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-resnick-on-consensus-05

It is a useful read for anyone who is looking for consensus in our kind of environment.

Regards,

Gordon @ Vancouver