At 08:31 AM 3/23/2001, Lloyd Wood wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> We're getting far afield, but "tourist" refers to someone who attends
> and possibly tries to participate in working groups without having done
> their homework. I've lost track of how many times this week I heard "I
> haven't read the drafts, but..." or "Did you read the draft? No,
> but..."
But isn't cross-group fertilisation and wider exposure of work
supposed to be good for the open process and peer review?
That's the reason that 'tourists' and others are permitted. However
Steve's comment notes that the effect of such openness is not all good.
Personally I believe the positive vastly outweighs the negative, but the
negative does add a bit to the task of managing a working group. Process
management needs to work a bit harder to avoid distractions.
d/
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