[tao-discuss] Progress on my suggested rewrite

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

As I mentioned in a previous message, I would like to see the Tao rewritten as a set of smaller documents that can be assembled into one when required.  Those documents would be something like:

- Introduction to the IETF
- How the IETF Works
- Participating in IETF Meetings
- Structure and Governance of the IETF
- Culture and Folklore of the IETF

I’ve now produced drafts of two of these: 

1. Introduction to the IETF  (shared before.)
	https://github.com/JayDaley/tao/blob/main/Introduction%20to%20the%20IETF.md

2. Participating in IETF Meetings (new)
	https://github.com/JayDaley/tao/blob/main/Participating%20in%20IETF%20Meetings.md

In this second document, there are too many changes from section 3 of the Tao to list them all but they include:

* different structure
* moving new participant info into a single block
* added details of several agenda elements that were not covered
* added details of onsite facilities that were not covered
* removed out-of-date stuff such as corkboards, jabber, etc
* added missing colour to the dots
* trimmed the existing text to remove repetition and "remarks I find offputting" (I have no better way to explain it but see https://github.com/ietf/tao/issues/57 for an example).

My intent is to produce text that is friendlier, easier to learn from, more up to date and with a better signal/noise ratio.  I would love to hear if you think I’ve achieved that.

cheers
Jay

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
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