Jefsey, you are proposing involving the regional and local chapters in the standards process. That's a major shift both for the ISOC and for the IETF. It's also inconsistent as far as I can tell with what other organizations like IEEE that have both chapters and standards-related activities do. I agree with you that some members of regional and local ISOC chapters would (and do) bring significant value to the standards process. I question though whether directly involving the regional and local chapters would actually be the right way of involving these people why not involve them directly? Also, I'm concerned that there might be some significant disadvantages to directly involving regional and local chapters in the standards work. Traditionally we've had problems/friction when marketing/management types get involved in the IETF. At best it slows things down. However I think ISOC wants to have a broad appeal with its local chapters pulling in people from all parts of Internet business. --Sam _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf