On 03/20/2013 07:20 PM, Martin Rex wrote:
The more diverse the "culture", the higher the probability for
miscommunication (misunderstanding and taking offense).
True, but without the diversity, the solutions provided by IETF are less
likely to serve the interests of the extremely diverse Internet
community. (And that's what we're here for.)
The more more diverse the (interests) of the affiliations of IETF
participants and IETF leadership, the hotter the dicussions typically
burn on contentious issues (ratholing).
Perhaps, but what we commonly do in IETF now is artificially narrow the
scope of discussions to generate the appearance of consensus without the
reality. One result is that our protocols fail to meet the needs of a
great many users. Another result is that the Internet architecture has
gone to hell, and we're now spending a huge amount of effort building
kludges to fix the problems associated with other kludges.... and the
new kludges will almost certainly create more problems resulting in a
need for more kludges later. (if you need an example, you need look no
further than PCP and LSN)
Keith