Re: RFC 3929 on Alternative Decision Making Processes for Consensus-Blocked Decisions in the IETF (fwd)
John Levine <[email protected]>
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| Organization | I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA |
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> 1)This scheme would put excessive power in the hands of the few: the > Chairs, who are appointed (indirectly) by the elite few who can pay > non-trivial sums of money to attend lots of IETF meetings, such sums > generally provided by large corporations with entrenched interests. A fair number of us go to IETF meetings and pay partly or entirely out of our own pockets. We stay in cheaper hotels or with relatives, but we go. If the IETF process is important to you, you should also go. If it's not that important to you, that's fine, too. But the category "very important but not worth my spending any money" simply doesn't exist. Regards, John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY http://www.taugh.com