What Jari posted:
" What is IANA, how does it work, how is it related to the IETF, and how
has it evolved over time? How will it evolve in the future, and how can you
participate in the discussion?"
Excuse me but when someone invites me to engage in an open ended
conversation about the future of an Internet institution I intend to do
precisely that.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net>
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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