Re: [Manycouches] DOGFOOD Virtual BoF

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 4/17/19 10:45 PM, Mukom Akong T. wrote:

> One of the issues that Ted raised that got me to come to the BoF is 
> the fact that not enough new people are coming into the IETF.
>
> Also bear in mind that while I respect everyone's desire for privacy 
> and thus not use tools from Google or Microsoft or Facebook, those 
> tools might be the only options available right now affordable to lots 
> and lots and lots of engineers.
>
> If we want to open up the work we do, we will have to find an answer 
> to that.

I still remember the days when we were able to effectively collaborate 
using just email, so I guess I think it's probably still possible.   
That said, there are some things that email can't do well.

Also, IETF has its own tools for several things already, so I'm not sure 
why it should be out-of-scope to add another tool or two.   There are 
advantages and disadvantages to that (e.g. I hate that people pretty 
much have to learn a special dialect of XML to write internet-drafts), 
but it should be within the realm of consideration.

Keith