On 2/12/14 3:32 AM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: > Does anyone have any other ideas about how we can get back to a point > where most of our decisions are made by people who are active on the > WG mailing list and interested in the work of the group year-round? I think it's, at core, a cultural problem, and that we're not doing a very good job of acculturating participants or even our leadership. Another problem is that the email situation has deteriorated a lot over the past couple of decades, and most of us are now receiving hundreds of pieces of email/day. It tends to dissolve into noise. At meetings, at least people are there to do the work of the IETF. And I suppose it's necessary to point out the irony of so many "participants" spending meeting time reading email, although I think a lot of those people are bodies-in-chairs and not active in the working group in session (we've all been that person, I think). Melinda