Well said.. Incompetence and stupidity have never been an impediment to a genuine democratic process. You only need look at the US Congress, UK Parliament, German Bundestag, and Japanese Diet etal for evidence of that. > -----Original Message----- > From: Theodore Tso [mailto:tytso@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 5:31 PM > To: todd glassey > Cc: stbryant@xxxxxxxxx; Keith Moore; ietf@xxxxxxxx; > jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: NOMCOM term limits... Re: Now there seems to be > lackofcommunicaiton here... > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:30:40PM -0700, todd glassey wrote: > > Yes Keith even the incompetent get to speak here. And that includes you > too. > > Yes, the incompetent do get to speak here. That has been amply > demonstrated on this and other threads, without naming anyone in > specific. And, the incompetent, if they attend a sufficient number of > IETF meetings, are also capable of putting their names into the hat > and have a random chance of being selected to serve on the Nomcom, > like everyone else. There is the hope that by the time have served on > the requisite number of IETF meetings and worked on various IETF > projects, that they will have learned enough about the community which > they are proposing to serve that they won't, perhaps, be as > incompetent as when they first started. > > No, it is not a mob rule by the uneducated. Some would say this is a > good thing. The uneducated mob can and does rule by exerting pressure > on the vendors, of course. So they do have a role to play in this > whole process, even if they don't get to vote on the IETF management > structure. > > - Ted > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf