Re: [tao-discuss] Progress on my suggested rewrite

Hi Jay,

Thanks for this effort, and I believe it is very important,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 1:17 PM Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> wrote:

> 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
>

I think structure section is better to be before the meeting section

> - Culture and Folklore of the IETF
>

After the meeting section I suggest to add social event among participants
in WGs and Areas and with All 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 * removed out-of-date stuff such as corkboards, jabber, etc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.
>
> Thanks
AB

> cheers
> Jay
>
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