> There is technical work other than late-stage document reviews. We > might get a larger return on investment if community members who are > temporarily serving in the area director role were to spend more of > their combined technical and management talent on making sure that our > working groups are solving the right engineering problems for the > long-term health of Internet. If that leads to fewer working groups > producing higher-quality output, so be it. It's perfectly appropriate to be upset. I thought of it in a slightly different way -- like a space that we were exploring and, in the early days, we figured out this consistent path through the space: IP, TCP, and so on. What's been happening over the last few years is that the IETF is filling the rest of the space with every alternative approach, not necessarily any better. Every possible alternative is now being written down. And it's not useful. -- Jon Postel