Re: Last Call: <draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt> (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC

Glen Zorn <glenzorn@gmail.com> Sat, 09 June 2012 01:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt> (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC
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On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:09 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:


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> > 	• The Tao mentions that we meet once a year in each region.  I don't think that's true for Asia at this point.  The text might call out that we meet where there are participants, or words that the IAOC might provide.
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> It doesn't say that. It says "approximately once a year in each region". That is still true.

A quick check of the "Upcoming IETF Meetings" calendar
(http://www.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.html) shows that the next meeting
in Asia is scheduled for November 2015, while the last was November
2011.  How does a 4 year gap map to "approximately once a year"?

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