Re: Transition

Stephen D Crocker <crocker@tis.com> Thu, 12 November 1992 12:47 UTC

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To: Dennis Perry <perry@mcl.unisys.com>
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Subject: Re: Transition
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:29:22 -0500. <9211121229.AA26648@kauai.MCL.Unisys.COM>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:47:47 -0500
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From: Stephen D Crocker <crocker@tis.com>

Dennis,

>> But, I am more concerned with the process of how the IETF does its
>> work of "engineering."  I think that if this problem were also
>> attacked, then we might have a chance of fixing what appears to be
>> an organizational issue.  Fixing an organization and leaving the
>> process the same will not solve the problem that I think we are
>> seeing.  In fact, any organization will work, some might work
>> better than others, but organizational issues will not in general
>> provide solutions to the type of problem that I think is at the
>> root of the issue.


Any chance you can provide some specific suggestions as to how to
improve the engineering?  The door is open, but it's closing quickly.


Steve