I did check, but I'm not eligible. There is noone to say you can't (well, not at the moment, given the very slim amount of work around), I doubt I could justify the time or (more importantly) the costs, even of dialing in on a cheap resellers service, as they do mount up. I have responded to people who complain that something isn't done, to explain constraints and invite them to do something themselves. That doesn't always work - they don't always do anything - but by and large they do accept a need to put up or shut up. > > There is a working group currently considering nomcom procedures. Such > comments should be posted there. > > Donald > > PS: I have found that telling people "don't dare complain about X" is > not a particularly effective argument. > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Eliot Lear wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:32:39 -0700 > > From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> > > To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> > > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > > Subject: Re: am i the only one... > > > > Pekka Savola wrote: > > > Attending teleconferences is boring as it is, attending weekly 2-hour > > > tellies, probably arranged in a US-centric fashion (as most things here > > > are) must be next to unbearable? > > > > It's a burdensome time commitment, no doubt. On the other hand, don't > > dare complain about "U.S. centric" anything if you are not willing to be > > part of the process to effect change. -- Dominic Pinto ------------- | Barn Cottage, Hill House Senior Associate Telesphere Limited | Somerton Road, | between Souldern & Somerton http://www.telespherelimited.com | Bicester, Oxon, OX25 6LS, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ph/Fax: +44 1869 346375 Cellphone/GSM Mobile: +44 780 302 8268 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friend or Former Student of University of Newcastle upon Tyne? Join us: See http://www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out FITCE Congress 2002 Genoa at http://www.fitce.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------