John,
Dave, I disagree, at least slightly, but that is because I suffer from a concern --documented in a "request for review" and previous notes to this list-- that the IAOC/Trustees are _not_ doing their job, or at least the part of that job that requires keeping the community informed about the decisions they are making and the reasons for them.
Speaking as myself. I think we have heard this message and we are working on improving communications. We have spent time to get all outstanding meetings done, we are now working on making minutes of new meetings more readable for somebody not present at the meeting. We also started to explicitly ask the community about choices we have to make for meetings, for example, Quebec vs. Vancouver or China or no China. BTW, we are still looking for a volunteer scribe for our meetings :-)
Suppose he posted a list of questions to which he thought we should have answers before we put a meeting in any location that has a reputation (justified or not) for regulating the free flow of information, asked whether the IAOC had answers to those questions for a particular case, and, if they did, that they share those answers with the community? I think that would be reasonable and that the IAOC could reasonably respond to such a question by saying "yes, similar questions were asked, we think the answers are reasonable, and the discussion is documented in the IAOC Minutes of ...". Except that he did ask, hasn't gotten an answer like that and, by the way, there are no minutes of enough substance to be pointed to on that (or any other) issue.
We have a long list with issues that we think should be settled before we decide to go there or not, and we are working on the document describing why we decided one way or another. Henk -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(at)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.xs4all.nl/~henku P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Belgium: an unsolvable problem, discussed in endless meetings, with no hope for a solution, where everybody still lives happily. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf