Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people come from?

Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> Sat, 30 May 2020 02:48 UTC

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From: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 12:48:18 +1000
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Subject: Re: So where have all these new 6man WG people come from?
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com>, "Bernier, Daniel" <daniel.bernier@bell.ca>, "Voyer, Daniel" <daniel.voyer@bell.ca>, "Templin (US), Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>, "otroan@employees.org" <otroan@employees.org>, 6MAN <6man@ietf.org>
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Do you think somebody who spent many hours of their own time preparing
and presenting this at the AusNOG 2015 conference wants to discourage
IETF participation, unless it is trying to influence group consensus
via membership stacking and using ring-ins (Australian for non-genuine
members)?

"Why you should read RFCs and Internet Drafts (and what you need to
know to do so)"
https://www.ausnog.net/sites/default/files/ausnog-2015/presentations/1.4_Mark_Smith_AusNOG2015.pdf

On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 01:08, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
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> > On May 28, 2020, at 10:25 AM, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com> wrote:
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> > Am questioning if we are seeing a growth in participation – or a blatant stacking of the floor with people who have never set foot on the lists and will never will again.
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> (No hat)
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> I’m concerned about how welcoming this might be to new participants who perhaps have a legitimate problem to be solved that they discover in the operations of a network.  This above text doesn’t reflect a welcoming environment, nor one where perhaps someone has something valuable to contribute in a single area of expertise of operations.
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> I’m going to bookmark this thread for a reminder next time someone asks me about if the IETF is welcoming to newcomers.
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> - Jared