Re: [dispatch] Demonstration of Implementer Support for Multibase and Multihash at IETF (was: Re: Finding a home for Multibase and Multihash)

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Manu Sporny <[e-mail]> writes:
> Operating in a mailing list-first mode is not how a non-trivial number
> of the upcoming generations of engineers operate... and I say this
> coming from a generation that grew up using, and being comfortable
> with, using mailing lists as a primary mode of operation.

This is all an important issue ... it seems to me that it should be
seriously discussed on [e-mail], of all places.

But of course we're starting to run into the problem that the first
generation of IETFers is just barely starting to die, so we've never
considered major changes to our mode of operation.

> IETF has some of the best remote participation infrastructure when it
> comes to the meetings, and being able to dispatch, easily, from
> anywhere in the world via video conference is the sort of innovation
> we've come to expect from IETF. The younger generations don't seem to
> have an issue with /that/ particular set of infrastructure.

It's an important point whether this truly works from *anywhere* in the
world.  The current mode of operation was based on the idea that you
could work effectively in the IETF even if you were connected to the
Internet through a 9600 baud Usenet link.  I'm sure that full video is
now available to more places than were connected to the Internet back
then, but how ubiquitious is it outside the "developed" world?

Dale