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Re: Tired of Waiting

"Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com> Wed, 15 July 1998 20:50 UTC

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From: Christopher Ambler <cambler@iodesign.com>
To: perry@piermont.com, Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
Cc: discussion-draft@giaw.org, ietf@ietf.org, ifwp@ifwp.org, List@giaw.org, rmeyer@mhsc.com
Subject: Re: Tired of Waiting
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:33:07 -0700
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>I actually believe in a fully open process. However, email is not
>structured to make that feasible. In a committee hearing, you can
>follow things like Roberts Rules of Order to make sure that giving
>everyone their say is orderly. In email, you can't do that, which
>means you can't operate a fully open process using only email.


I actually agree with Perry on this one, which is why I'm going well
out of my way to attend the meetings (DC, Geneva, etc). I feel we
make much more progress at these meetings than over the
lists. By far.

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