On 4/15/21 5:54 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
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.
I remember when I first arrived on the scene and all I can say is
that I was really cringeworthy. I'm pretty confident so I could
take my lumps, but most people are much more risk adverse. We need
to keep that in mind.
Mike
