Re: IETF Chair

[Kyle Rose <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:10 PM Khaled Omar <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I expect to see fair evaluation for ideas with no prejudice to a specific agenda or policy and the only one prejudice is for making the internet work better even if the idea will add a small difference, the most important is that it add something NEW with value.

Inclusion does not relieve you of the burden of convincing others that
your proposals serve a unique, un-met need, are technically feasible,
and are worthy of attention relative to all the other work going on at
the IETF so as to build a sufficient core to move that work forward.

> I expect also that people respect ideas and if you have not something good to say, then avoid the discussion.

That's not how any of this works. If an idea is bad, I expect
engineers to say so. What we should not do is discount an idea based
on the race, ethnicity, creed, etc. of those proposing it. I see no
evidence that any such thing has happened in the IETF, at least since
I've been participating.

Indeed, one of the critical functions of the IETF (and, really, any
SDO) is to discriminate: between good and bad ideas, productive and
unproductive uses of time, between work that advances our shared
values and work that opposes it. You will not get much support for
rubber stamping anyone's proposals regardless of merit.

Kyle