That would mean that only those with deep pockets could buy at auction and
therefore be able to submit any drafts, assuming every starts at
zero. Everyone else could go home. Seems to run counter to the whole IETF
spirit.
You might as well be trading airline miles for IETF tokens. Hmmm... so
marketing types could now write all the drafts? :)
Mike
At 11:11 AM 3/20/2003 -0800, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
adaptation of an idea that came up for controlling mike time....
give everyone who shows up at an IETF meeting one token, good for 6 months.
require 10 tokens to submit an internet-draft.
allow people to give tokens to others - anyone who can convince 10 people
that something is worth posting should do it.
encourage people to give their expiring tokens to people they think make
sense, so that known-good people can post at any time
anyone who gets an RFC published gets 10 tokens; anyone who gets a
standards-track document published gets 20.
for fixing the financial problems, auction off 100 extra tokens per IETF.
of course this is a typical example of a technical solution to a social
problem :-)
Harald
--On 19. mars 2003 20:32 -0800 Spencer Dawkins <spencer_dawkins(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
wrote:
The speaker in front of me said "charge people a small fee for
Internet-Drafts", and someone muttered "charge them by the
page".
It's incredibly unrealistic, but don't you really want to charge
more for Internet-Drafts on dumb ideas?
Spencer
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