Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
See RFC 4144.
]
]...
] 3. Eighty Percent of Success is Showing Up
]
] It is the simplest thing! If you are absent, how can you have much
] prominence or influence?
]
] This applies to all venues, email/messaging, telephone/video
] conference, and especially in-person or face-to-face meetings. You
] do not need 100% attendance, but your absences should be rare. If
] possible, only miss less important events.
Generally good advice...
But many of us cannot afford the cost of three IETF weeks before we
see some return. (Especially those who need their employer to subsidize
three weeks of their time as well as the travel costs...)
We cannot reasonably hope to change human nature -- least of all by
writing one RFC -- but surely we can do something to ameliorate this
economic disincentive?
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John Leslie <john(_at_)jlc(_dot_)net>