On 4/15/21 8:37 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
I've found that newcomers are much more likely to be taken favorably if they're well-prepared.
Well, the nature of a newcomer is that they *won't* be well prepared. It's sort of the nature of the beast.
Disagree. They won't know everything, of course, but if they know enough about the subject matter to clearly know what they're talking about, they're much more likely to be taken seriously.
And the problem of participants not being well-prepared isn't at all limited to newcomers to IETF.
Keith
