Not sure having a score for this makes sense. Not everyone with an IELTS
score of 7+ chooses to participate 'fully' and not everyone who does
participate fully today necessarily has an IELTS score of 7 or higher.
Unless the very definition of the IETF is to be changed to exclude those
who speak "lower quality" (in a sense) of English, this would be more
disruptive than constructive.
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:45 PM, <l(_dot_)wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
wrote:
You'll find it stated in a number of places that the working language of
the IETF is English. Well, yes.
What is not stated is how good that English has to be to participate
fully in technical discussion to get the most out of IETF participation.
I would suggest that an IELTS score of 7.0 or higher, or equivalent,
in all categories is a good indicator of being able to participate fully.
If someone is unable to achieve that level, they, and everyone
interacting with them, will find written exchanges very frustrating,
to the detriment of discussion overall.
If we're going to write RFCs codifying behaviour, we can codify this, too.
Lloyd Wood
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