----- 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 > > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf