I already asked/suggested the general area director to have WGs in the area
because I want focus as well, but I don't mind your suggestion to have
facilitators that help focus in discussion or to guide productivity. I
already commented in the 2013 review thread that the area need
more organise.
AB
On Sunday, January 5, 2014, Dave Crocker wrote:
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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