Re: Submission of charter for POISON

John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net> Mon, 29 April 1996 15:26 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
Subject: Re: Submission of charter for POISON
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At 15:21 96.04.29 +0200, Brian Carpenter CERN-CN wrote:
>Erik,
>
>Another thing about Poisson is that he invented a random
>distribution - maybe even more appropriate than a slippery
>fish.

Especially appropriate when one considers what that particularly non-random
distribution is used to predict.

>If we don't charter a WG, what will cause the documents
>to get written? Erik's great success in Poised95 was there,
>not in running a few meetings.

The prospect of developing a document and a WG?   It is not clear to me that
chartering a WG is more likely to get those particular documents written...

    john