Re: Starting to roll the ball

Hi, April! How was Minneapolis? Pretty cold out there?

April Marine wrote:
>
> Others can correct me, but the upshot of the meeting is that we
> agreed to start with a finite audience that we understand and can reliably
> create content for: the new IETF attendee or someone who wants to know
> more about the breadth of the IETF 

I, for one, will be sorry if the weird pages are left to circulate
only among the IETF attendees. The FYIs are of great general
usefulness; I steer everyone I know who asks those sorts of question
to them, with inevitable success. 

The weird pages will have an even greater applicability, and should
be made universally available, IMHO. And that means an informational
and linkage campaign. Why, even many of the RFC mirror sites don't
carry the FYIs. And I recently discovered that my ISP, who doesn't
belong to the IETF, had never seen the ones on networking tools, and
is very happy to have them, since they are of such great utility to
isolated ISPs who are having problems configuring their DN records.
What a shame it will be if these new pages aren't more widely
distributed!