Hi -
On 2023-08-16 2:03 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On 17-Aug-23 05:04, Keith Moore wrote:
On 8/16/23 08:43, Salz, Rich wrote:
The point I was trying to make, is that "we don't know" what the IETF
community thinks about the general concept of never meeting at one of
the regular meetings. That's not an argument against CELLAR; I was
trying to make an argument for community involvement in deciding what
the principles and code, if you will, should be.
However, there have been a handful of never-actually-meeting WGs for
many, many years, and no resulting appeals or disasters as far as I
know. So I'd be very surprised if the community consensus was that this
is a Bad Thing. Indeed it would be odd for the community that
practically invented "on-line" to object to on-line-only decision-taking.
...
I co-chaired one of those never-actually-meeting WGs - ltru.
We did have to initiate a PR-action against one participant,
but I think that disruption would have happened regardless of
whether any in-person meetings had taken place.
In the case of that particular WG, it helped that we had a
narrow charter, and that there was already enough experience
with the technology alternatives and their tradeoffs to make it
clear that a perfect solution to the issues we needed to
address was highly unlikely, so any result was going to be
an engineering compromise.
Randy
