Re: [IAOC] Badges and blue sheets

[Scott Brim <[e-mail]>]

On 11/16/2010 11:59 CST, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:49:06PM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>> We need a consistent policy.
> 
> I think the idea that we need a giant rule-book of policies, carefully
> gone over by everyone to ensure perfect consistency among the rules
> applying to different classes of people (whose situations we will
> artificially make "the same" in order that the comparison function
> works, in some giant new volunteer-run form of Ontario's failed pay
> equity system) is the sort of beguiling fantasy that destroys formerly
> agile, loose organizations like the IETF.  We do not need a consistent
> policy.  What we need, I say, is no policy at all except, "The
> people handling the money shall use good judgement, and we'll get to
> audit the books afterwards."
> 
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Right, focus on process not procedures.