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Re: [Fwd: 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> Sun, 10 June 2012 05:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: 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]
From: Glen Zorn <glenzorn@gmail.com>
To: Ole Jacobsen <ole@cisco.com>
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On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 18:09 -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote:


> The intended rotation cycle is still 1-1-1 for NA-EU-AP regions, but 
> it's all dependent on finding suitable and available venues and 
> willing hosts and sponsors. Changing the text of the document would
> imply a change in "policy" or "normal state of things" which there
> hasn't been.


Hmm.  So a dream world is the normal state of things...I guess really
should read this thing, if only to discover what other fantasies have
been made "real" through the magic of rough consensus.  However, since
this is a guide for the novice, I might remind folks that there is
chance that, lacking real experience, the novices in question might
actually believe what's in it  -- a dangerous prospect it seems.


> 
> Ole
> 
> Ole J. Jacobsen
> Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
> Cisco Systems
> Tel: +1 408-527-8972   Mobile: +1 415-370-4628
> E-mail: ole@cisco.com  URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
> Skype: organdemo
> 
> 
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Glen Zorn wrote:
> 
>  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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