At 2:30 PM +0200 9/28/04, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Just to be clear, I trust the leadership to decide better than I
> can. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a day job that
> has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with IETF governance. I'd
> like to have the time to go over all this fun stuff, but even if I
> did I'd rather spend it pestering some CEOs as to how they would
> structure such organizations(s) for success. I prefer to think of
> myself as an engineer, not an MBA.
Fully agree.
I agree as well.
At 10:44 AM -0400 9/28/04, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> If the community refuses to participate actively in these decisions,
> I guess that the IETF leadership will be forced to decide what to do
> without active community input. But, I fear that we would make a
> poorer decision than we would with full community involvement and
> input.
Fully disagree.
For one thing, many of us are not "refusing to participate actively":
we responded to the poll saying we aren't expressing a preference.
That is active and, in my mind, more constructive than expressing an
opinion based on little understanding and even less commitment to
follow through. Most of us have been in WGs where someone will have a
strongly-held opinion based on reading the intro and TOC of a draft
and some of the messages that have gone to the list so far; most of
us know how much weight to give those opinions.
Paul, I agree 100% with this assessment. I personally have a slight preference
for scenario O, but it isn't strong enough to vote for it. And more to the
point, I don't believe I have enough experience to form a competent strong
opinion on this matter. And this is coming from someone who has for many years
been and continues to be actively involved in other nonprofits. I guess I know
enough to know how little I know...
Ned
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