On Mon, 9 May 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
(catching up on old stuff)
Eliot Lear wrote:
Margaret,
The words I hate most when I am in a WG meeting are these:
"take it to the mailing list"
That is usually short for "we can't agree in person so we'll now continue
to disagree by email".
Sometimes it's short for "We are out of time." In fact, I think that's
the common case. Other times it's "We here today can't form a consensus,
but in the IETF consensus is formed on the list anyway, so let's
try that way when we've all had time to think."
Sometimes I have come to treat "take it to the list" as:
"we don't seem to have enough people in the room that actually care
about this, as nobody comes to say anything on the mike. We'll just
put the document (or the issue) on the pending list until anyone gets
interested on the list, or until the next meeting when we'll have this
discussion again."
Yeah, that's a problem, but it's not clear which is better: the chairs
more aggressively pursuing a timeliness (even though sufficiently many
people don't seem to be paying attention or voicing strong opinions)
so that issues or documents can be finished, or intentionally delaying
work which hasn't garnered sufficient momentum (or the momentum has
been lost).
My personal take is that it's very important to finish the work that
has been started on a timely fashion, but we might be more strict on
accepting new work if we see a loss of interest.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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