Different setting, please don't make direct comparison and also please
remember THIS IS IETF WG group and NOT OASIS WG group so we must work
by IETF rules (no matter if you like those or not).
Not if the companies decide not to show up it isn't. Get the idea
out of your head that it is the IETF or nothing.
The IETF has proposed four email encryption and signature schemes.
None of them is a conspicious success.
As I pointed out in my first email, nothing in IETF rules prevents
the use of con calls. Come to that there is nothing to stop
bi-weekly face to face meetings.