Re: [scim] Proposal to create a design team

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 10/18/12 7:34 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> And given that half of the semi-active WG participants seem to have
> volunteered to be on the design team, we might consider just doing the
> work in the WG as a whole. :-)

I'd be a little surprised if half the volunteers for the design team
actually do end up writing text, etc.  There's a general problem of how
to progress work in the IETF, since it seems like we're getting less
done between meetings and seem to have morphed into a meeting-driven
organization.  I really don't like interims, since (among
other things) I think reliance on them tends to exclude smaller
companies with crappy travel budgets from the process, and that's not
okay.  Design teams with regular calls can achieve much the same thing
as an interim meeting, and as long as the process is transparent
there's little risk of taking the work in a direction the group would
otherwise not support.  I agree there needs to be clear - and
specific - goals, though.

Melinda