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

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Thanks, Stephen. I guess i was referring to 
"act outside the box" and not only "think outside the box".
And i do think it may be easier to do that when you actually
do come from outside the box.

Cheers
    Toerless

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 04:27:59PM +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> On 13/10/2021 15:54, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think that's accurate. It's fair to say that
> we didn't make real progress on attempting to only
> meet twice in any year before covid, but there were
> a bunch of ADs among those considering the issues,
> (incl. me back then.) Just because the IESG doesn't
> manage to succeed in figuring stuff out does not mean
> that the IESG didn't try so I'd cut the current leadership
> some slack before accusing them of being unable to
> think outside whatever boxes are perceived to exist.
> 
> S.