Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

> At 2:30 PM +0200 9/28/04, Eliot Lear wrote:

> > Just to be clear, I trust the leadership to decide better than I
> > can.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a day job that
> > has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with IETF governance. I'd
> > like to have the time to go over all this fun stuff, but even if I
> > did I'd rather spend it pestering some CEOs as to how they would
> > structure such organizations(s) for success.  I prefer to think of
> > myself as an engineer, not an MBA.

> Fully agree.

I agree as well.

> At 10:44 AM -0400 9/28/04, Margaret Wasserman wrote:

> > If the community refuses to participate actively in these decisions,
> > I guess that the IETF leadership will be forced to decide what to do
> > without active community input.  But, I fear that we would make a
> > poorer decision than we would with full community involvement and
> > input.

> Fully disagree.

> For one thing, many of us are not "refusing to participate actively":
> we responded to the poll saying we aren't expressing a preference.
> That is active and, in my mind, more constructive than expressing an
> opinion based on little understanding and even less commitment to
> follow through. Most of us have been in WGs where someone will have a
> strongly-held opinion based on reading the intro and TOC of a draft
> and some of the messages that have gone to the list so far; most of
> us know how much weight to give those opinions.

Paul, I agree 100% with this assessment. I personally have a slight preference
for scenario O, but it isn't strong enough to vote for it. And more to the
point, I don't believe I have enough experience to form a competent strong
opinion on this matter. And this is coming from someone who has for many years
been and continues to be actively involved in other nonprofits. I guess I know
enough to know how little I know...

				Ned

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