And is that because members of the "larger" community were not allowed to participate in those WGs whose decisions adversely impacted their interests? Because, by your assertion, if they had participated, they would have been part of making the WG decision, which would therefore not have been in the interest of that remaining larger community :-) -Vach > -----Original Message----- > From: moore@cs.utk.edu [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:55 AM > To: vkompella@timetranetworks.com > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: a personal opinion on what to do about the sub-ip area > > > > Let's particularly ignore the fact that > > the folks closest to the issues have the most interest in getting the best > > possible outcome. > > increasingly often I find WGs whose definition of "the best possible > outcome" is inconsistent with, and in some cases almost diametrically > opposed to, the interests of the larger community. > > Keith >