Re: Think outside the box - Re: Want to be on the IESG?

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Mon, 18 October 2021 22:19 UTC

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:17:55 -0700
To: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>, ietf@ietf.org
From: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
Subject: Re: Think outside the box - Re: Want to be on the IESG?
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Hi Toreless,
At 07:54 AM 13-10-2021, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>Let me give just two examples:
>
>manycouches had many couch potatoes arguing for many many years to
>have at least one virtual-only IETF per year, even if just as an
>experiment. I do not remember a single AD thinking outside of a box
>to push for such an experiment. It took covid.

The message at 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/manycouches/pUzNqQtV6HfzuS5YRw7cVAlvINM/ 
is from 2016.  The discussion predates the current pandemic.

>A good amount of work, especially design teams became a lot more
>open in reaction to USA EAR politics.

I haven't looked into that.

Do mean that Area Directors are unable to consider a perspective 
which is contrary to IETF dogma?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy