Sam,
I completely agree. While it may be "politically correct" to involve the
ISOC chapters, it should not be a required course of action. It is also
worth noting that only a SMALL number of ISOC chapters are actually
active, have regular meetins, or even a web or e-mail presence. The
chapter model was adopted to allow global reach, but in a world where
people have little time for face-to-face meetings and conduct most of
their business "on line," this hasn't proved to be a very useful model.
There ARE a few exceptions, don't get me wrong, but they number maybe a
dozen or less chapters on a world-wide basis, with less than 100 people
involved by my guesstimate.
Ole (former VP for Chapters at ISOC)
Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal
Academic Research and Technology Initiatives, Cisco Systems
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Sam Hartman wrote:
Jefsey, you are proposing involving the regional and local chapters in
the standards process.
That's a major shift both for the ISOC and for the IETF. It's also
inconsistent as far as I can tell with what other organizations like
IEEE that have both chapters and standards-related activities do.
I agree with you that some members of regional and local ISOC chapters
would (and do) bring significant value to the standards process.
I question though whether directly involving the regional and local
chapters would actually be the right way of involving these people why
not involve them directly?
Also, I'm concerned that there might be some significant disadvantages
to directly involving regional and local chapters in the standards
work. Traditionally we've had problems/friction when
marketing/management types get involved in the IETF. At best it slows
things down.
However I think ISOC wants to have a broad appeal with its local
chapters pulling in people from all parts of Internet business.
--Sam
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