Hi Joel,
At 00:54 22-11-2013, joel jaeggli wrote:
On 11/21/13, 11:21 PM, SM wrote:
Ascribing properties of sentience to an organization isn't going to get
you very far.
Ok.
I would look at the institutional memory angle instead of sentience.
It's not unreasonable to expect more failure than success as part of the
human enterprise. If anything the structure of incentives around IETF
activities tend (imho) to cause us to spend more time dwelling on the
failures, the things that turned out to be a bad idea, and so forth then
simply moving on.
I agree that it is not unreasonable to expect more failure than
success. It is likely difficult to have the short discussion about
why X failed and what could be learned from that.
Regards,
-sm