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RJ Atkinson writ
es:
Someone else noted:
Participation by mail before participation in person.
EXAMPLE
I was an active participant (e.g. ask folks in Denmark
who were involved with early MIME stuff) via email long
before I showed up in person. To this day, I don't make
every meeting. Before ever showing up in person, I was able
to make major impacts on MIME's support for multi-lingual
environments.
I've seen others do similarly. For example, I've
never run into Valdis at an IETF meeting, but he has an
impact.
ASSERTION
So one need not attend to have an impact.
Indeed. I was in the same situation -- for family reasons, I couldn't
travel, but I was an active participant in a number of mailing lists
and working groups. I was asked to be on the IPng directorate before
I'd attended a single IETF meeting -- and that was based on my
publications on security, and my electronic participation.
--Steve Bellovin