Hi SM comments below, On 3/3/13, SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here is a quote from someone in Africa who was involved in other I* > bodies (not the IETF): > > "Africa has many educated people with a great local perspective; however > they have little global influence. I find that it is not enough to > invite > people to forums where it is a known fact that they will not contribute > meaningfully." I don't beleive that, but that maybe true if we know the reasons or background of that experience, > Abdussalam, I'll ask an unfair question: How will the Internet > Society Chapters in those places contribute meaningfully to the IETF [1]? It will be meanigful contribution if there was advise, willing, and guide from the IETF, but I never claim I have solutions just thoughts, it can be another challenge answer to the question by this thread, > > At 05:05 03-03-2013, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >>My experience is that there is a huge difference between different >>WGs. Some I have sent email to without response, then actually >>emailed the WG chair and asked if the topic of my email was within >>the WG scope, still no answer. This is an example of an WG that's >>hard to get into, seems populated by people who mostly discuss >>within an already established group and where nobody seems to bother >>that someone comes in with an idea to even give them a reply that >>their idea is not on topic or alike. > > Yes. As an anecdote I had a somewhat similar experience. It does > not bother me and I am not inclined to do anything about it. This is a discourage that the IETF SHOULD solve and monitor. If I was an IETF chair I will fire thoes WG Chairs that don't respond to posts on their WG list. Very discourage/wrong behavior of such organisation that ignores an input or a participant. > >>Some other WGs are populated by people who are very happy to respond >>and discuss to anyone who comes up with something, which is very >> welcoming. > > Yes. Thoes WGs are the stars of the IETF, which encourage and make the challenges become innovation, All the best AB > Regards, > -sm > > 1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg62861.html > >