Re: Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employmentstatus

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Melinda Shore" <shore@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employmentstatus


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> On 2010-04-07 05:57, Melinda Shore wrote:
> > On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> >> I thought we didn't have members?  I've always liked to refer to
> >> people doing work here as "participants" for exactly that reason.
> >
> > Right.
>
> Or "contributors" when they contribute and therefore subject themselves
> to our IPR rules.
>
> BTW please look at the paragraph headed "Participation" at
> http://www.ietf.org/newcomers.html, which I drafted. Do people
> agree with that summary?
>

no:-(

I think that the information is there but in the wrong order.  Were I new, I
would probably disconnect after the first paragraph; who cares about the
structure (at least at this stage)?

Tom Petch

>    Brian
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