Re: [78attendees] We gotta stop meeting like this (was: We'll meet again...)

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Maybe what we need, instead of the IETF daily dose, is the slashdot of
> the IETF: a sort of news ticker of what interesting things are going
> on there.  Now, one could argue that the I-D announcements ought to be
> that, but lots of I-Ds are now cleanup, updates of previous
> versions. &c.

That's related to an idea I've been kicking around in my head for a while--an IETF wiki that would act as a guide to all the work the IETF's done so far, and the work it's doing now.   With the RFC numbers rapidly closing on 6000, there are hundreds of RFCs I definitely should have read, but don't even know about.   But fundamentally, I just completely agree with this idea--I think if we could figure out a way to do it and make it worth reading, yet not too noisy, it might help a lot of efforts along.

> Anyway, I'm not trying to say, "Poor us, we held a party and nobody
> came."  I'm sort of relieved: if nobody wants to tell us what problem
> we have to solve, then we can feel comfortable saying that there's
> nothing to do.  Good!  No more work for the WG!

I've found that the surest way to get people to say what they really feel is to say "okay, nobody's interested in this, we're dropping it."   Sometimes you get lucky and nobody yells at you.