Focus (was Re: Design Considerations (was - Re: IANA blog article))

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On 1/4/2014 2:14 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
1. Jari posted a blog post about IANA, and I ask myself why IETF (yes, "we") can not stay focused


Email group discussions are easily distracted because:

1) the group often does not share a strong sense of needing to stay focused, and

   2) no one carries the task of trying to help the group stay focused.

Neither of these is special to this mailing list, and we have all seen face-to-face meetings suffer the same problem. However in normal group meetings, there is usually pressure to be productive. We we typically have someone driving discussion and getting group agreement to have the focus created by that driving.

If we want IETF discussions to do a better job of staying focused, we need for a topic to have a facilitator who presses for that focus and we need them to do the usual summarizing and polling that we use elsewhere in the IETF.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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