On 1/4/2014 2:14 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
1. Jari posted a blog post about IANA, and I ask myself why IETF (yes, "we")
can not stay focused
Email group discussions are easily distracted because:
1) the group often does not share a strong sense of needing to stay
focused, and
2) no one carries the task of trying to help the group stay focused.
Neither of these is special to this mailing list, and we have all seen
face-to-face meetings suffer the same problem. However in normal group
meetings, there is usually pressure to be productive. We we typically
have someone driving discussion and getting group agreement to have the
focus created by that driving.
If we want IETF discussions to do a better job of staying focused, we
need for a topic to have a facilitator who presses for that focus and we
need them to do the usual summarizing and polling that we use elsewhere
in the IETF.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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