RE: San Diego

What has the group accomplished?  Have we measured the results of those
accomplishments?

How many visitors per day come to the WEIRD Web site?  

Is that number increasing or decreasing?

What kind of questions and how many questions are asked by visitors at the
web site?

Is our mailing list for our visitors growing or shrinking in size and how
active is the message traffic on that list?

How long do visitors to the web site stay and look around?

How often do they return?

Do they refer other people to the site?

How many other web sites link to this one?

How well are we placed in search engines for our "targeted" key word and
phrases?

...

And so forth.

...

Lots of questions.  Not many answers.   

How serious do we want to get about this?


Bill Austin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruggeman, John [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: San Diego


Based on this email list I was assuming the list was somewhat dead as well.
I haven't heard much here - I thought maybe I was missing something (like
some other active list).

Perhaps not - is this this only WEIRD mailing list?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Ferrell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: San Diego


>At the last IETF, I asked for some feedback from USWG re whether they
>thought WEIRD should declare its experiment done and close down, or keep
>going.  The consensus was that many thought WEIRD should keep going.  Of
>course, WEIRD didn't meet last time, so it's not like actually asking the
>WG itself, so I thought I would ask you yourself.

I may have missed something back at the beginning, but isn't WEIRD 
supposed to be an ongoing effort, rather than a goal-oriented task 
like protocol development?  I mean, we can't just up and declare 
one day that the public are sufficiently elucidated, wash our hands and 
head home, can we?

>One thing that Chris and I have talked about is getting a co-chair.  Is it
>worth conning, uh, drafting someone to assist our WEIRD leader (couldn't
>resist that one :-), or do you all feel the WG is a loss?  

I should think that the number of responses you get to this 
query will be a fairly accurate reflection of whether or not the 
group is defunct.

I've forwarded a few "WEIRD Questions" from my Web site to the 
group and gotten zero response.  Not even crickets.  From that 
experience I would have to say that, as a working group, there isn't 
much to go on here. But maybe it was just bad timing.

Cheers,

RGF

Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP
Information Systems Security Officer
National Business Center
U. S. Dept. of the Interior
[email protected]
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