+1 Better not to start a "tradition" which will become an intolerable encumbrance even before we do! On 21 October 2012 18:10, Benson Schliesser <bensons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I feel a little bad saying this, because these individuals deserve > recognition. But I rather think this memorial page is not a good idea. > > If the IETF is around long enough, eventually all members of the community > will die. (Unless medical science makes some amazing achievements, I > suppose...) It's easy today to recognize a few people that made large > contributions earlier in the IETF's history. But at some point the list will > grow large, until it has lost its significance. And yet, at that point, it > may be unseemly to stop the tradition, and even more unseemly to delete the > existing memorial. > > I don't want to be insensitive, and I'm sorry to point this out. But I think > we're better off with heart-felt, personal memorials from living people that > remember and care about the departed. > > -Benson