On May 5, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Hannes Tschofenig >> <hannes.tschofenig@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi PHB, >>> >>> the IETF is not like an enterprise where you can decide (as part of the hiring process) what characteristics your employees should have. >> >> True, but that does not mean that you should decide that there is >> nothing the IETF can do to change those characteristics or is in fact >> doing albeit unintentionally. > > So, what would you do to adjust things ? I'm not PHB, but an obvious idea would be to change the requirements for a new work item from "rough consensus" to "a bunch of people willing to do the work and at least one willing to implement". Some working groups already work like this, but it's not universal.