Hi SM
comments below,
On 3/3/13, SM <sm(_at_)resistor(_dot_)net> wrote:
Here is a quote from someone in Africa who was involved in other I*
bodies (not the IETF):
"Africa has many educated people with a great local perspective; however
they have little global influence. I find that it is not enough to
invite
people to forums where it is a known fact that they will not contribute
meaningfully."
I don't beleive that, but that maybe true if we know the reasons or
background of that experience,
Abdussalam, I'll ask an unfair question: How will the Internet
Society Chapters in those places contribute meaningfully to the IETF [1]?
It will be meanigful contribution if there was advise, willing, and
guide from the IETF, but I never claim I have solutions just thoughts,
it can be another challenge answer to the question by this thread,
At 05:05 03-03-2013, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
My experience is that there is a huge difference between different
WGs. Some I have sent email to without response, then actually
emailed the WG chair and asked if the topic of my email was within
the WG scope, still no answer. This is an example of an WG that's
hard to get into, seems populated by people who mostly discuss
within an already established group and where nobody seems to bother
that someone comes in with an idea to even give them a reply that
their idea is not on topic or alike.
Yes. As an anecdote I had a somewhat similar experience. It does
not bother me and I am not inclined to do anything about it.
This is a discourage that the IETF SHOULD solve and monitor. If I was
an IETF chair I will fire thoes WG Chairs that don't respond to posts
on their WG list. Very discourage/wrong behavior of such organisation
that ignores an input or a participant.
Some other WGs are populated by people who are very happy to respond
and discuss to anyone who comes up with something, which is very
welcoming.
Yes.
Thoes WGs are the stars of the IETF, which encourage and make the
challenges become innovation,
All the best
AB
Regards,
-sm
1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg62861.html