Only one. Pay more attention to the choice of Working Group chair, in particular their non-technical, non-engineering capabilities. When everything goes well, engineering excellence is all we need. When things go wrong- a WG gets stuck, goes round in circles, produces unacceptable drafts and such like - it is non-technical skills that are needed to resolve the situation; sometimes they are present in good quality, sometimes otherwise. Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Narten" <narten@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Dave Crocker" <dcrocker@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Improving the IETF [was Re: Uneccesary slowness. ] > Hi Dave. > > > Working groups need to do work that is more relevant, focused and > > timely to current Internet needs. > > > The IESG needs to be more timely and constructive in helping working > > groups achieve these improvements. > > The above is spot on. I doubt anyone would disagree. > > But let's get to the bottom line and suggest something > constructive. Name 3 things we (the IETF/IESG/indviduals/WGs/etc.) > should and can be doing to address the above? > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf