On 17/02/2014 09:38, John Curran wrote: > Jorge - > > This particular group of folks gathered and received updates on various activities > going on... e.g. Jari and Russ spoke of perpass. It is a coordinating function; so > we know about major initiatives going on and can support and/or avoid conflicts > as appropriate. > > The only reason for the post-meeting statements (in my view) is simply because > people were unaware that these periodic gatherings were going on, and indicated > that we should be make such more visible. > > Note also that there quite a bit of focus on making sure the most recent statement > simply said what happened, i.e. a gathering of folks received a series of updates > from each other on a list of topics of potentially mutual interest. > > As a result, I now realize that W3C is having its 20th anniversary; that ICANN's > various strategy panels have been meeting, and that the "Brazil meeting" is now > know as “Netmundial” and has its own website <http://netmundial.br>. I don't > really know what the other leaders (for lack of a better term) took away, but > would hope that Jari, Russ, etc. found it useful context and background for their > IETF efforts. I guess that one option would be for the "leaders" from the IETF > community not to attend such gatherings, but that seems to be a rather extreme > response to take due to lack of a better term than "leader" (and one hopes it is > unnecessary so long as care is taken to make nothing more of the meetings than > what they are - a gathering of folks hearing updates so we can better coordinate) And to be clear, I'm very happy that our Chairs attend such meetings and report back to the community. I was only quibbling about a choice of words, and I'm sorry to have obscured the real value of the meeting. Brian