Re: Terminology discussion threads

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 14 August 2020 05:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Terminology discussion threads
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On 2020-08-14, at 07:29, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> my growing
> belief that the IETF is irredeemable.

Well, in a group of 1820 you will always find a few people who are making mistakes (I sure made some).

Mailing lists of this size may be irredeemable; for the IETF as an organization I’m seeing that self-healing processes are taking root now.

Grüße, Carsten