On 10/22/11 23:26 , Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 10/21/2011 7:58 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: >> It's increasingly the case that if you >> want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I'd have >> considerable reservations about asking for the kind of money you're >> suggesting. > > > Melinda, > > I've changed the subject line because the point you raise is orthogonal > to the main thread, but since you raise it, it's worth exploring a bit > (since I happen to agree with your observation.) > > The dynamics that make this true seem to have to do with changes in our > community rather than in the nature of the technical work or the online > tools. > > So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists? So, I'm a co-chair of a rather busy working group with a lot of remote participants, and I'm reasonably convinced that the center of gravity is the mailing list, this despite occasionaly needing three meetings to get through our agenda. I will observe having scribed for the same working group, that remote participation via the mailing list is a dramatically larger number of particpants than during the meeting itself. > d/ > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf