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Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-17 18:29:19
If we consolidate too much, we cease to be an association of
individuals working together to produce a rough consensus and
working code and begin to resemble a corporate hierarchy.
  

No knowledgeable individual would ever assert that the IETF is anywhere
near as efficient as a corporate hierarchy.

Eliot

I'd say efficiency is not necessarily the metric.  Contributions to
science, engineering, infrastructure, and society are better
metrics.  In that sense, I'd say the IETF has been far more
successful than any corporation, with the nice side benefit that
a few corporations have benefited.  But, that's not our mission.

If I wanted to participate in a corporate hierachy, I'd do so in
a job.  Our mission is making a global Internet and, IMHO, that
requires a different organizational structure.

Carl

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