I have been lurking IETF for many years, but it was only after I went
to my first meeting that I really understood how the IETF worked and how
to really participate.
After that meeting I started to send comments, read drafts, writing
some initial stuff and arguing. Before that meeting I didn't know how to
do it, and how good or bad my comments would be received. I think it
might be cultural, but before my first meeting I felt a bit intimidated
by the ietf and being flamed by a bad comment.
I didn't stop feeling intimidated after the first meeting, it took me a
bit more but definitely it helped me to understand the ietf, its
community and how to participate.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were many people just like I was, lurking
the email lists but have never sent anything for the same reasons that I
did.
Regards,
as
On 5/24/13 1:18 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 5/24/13 8:07 AM, Lou Berger wrote:
I personally am a big fan for going to uninteresting locations in their
off season. Although, perhaps I'm alone in liking Minneapolis in the
winter as an IETF destination...
No, not alone.
At any rate I think that the core questions about participation
are probably more relevant than a run-down of individual travel
costs. I've noticed that some of the posters from South
American countries who've expressed enthusiasm for an IETF
meeting in Buenos Aires have not been working group contributors,
and I'm wondering what they feel the barriers to participation
have been, and what can be done that would make it more likely
that they'd, say, review documents.
Melinda