On Oct 30, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > the final arbiter of any test in the room is on the mailing list. True. But a room with a high ratio of active participants to total attendees makes a much better sounding board for providing constructive feedback, than a room with a low ratio. You get convergence on a sound proposal more quickly if you can get good feedback from face to face meetings. And (provided the attendees at such meetings represent a decent cross-section of interests), proposals that have enjoyed such feedback are more likely to be enthusiastically accepted by a mailing list. Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf