Hi Melinda,
At 15:32 25-02-2014, Melinda Shore wrote:
The IETF does not have members. This is not a minor point.
I should have written:
the individuals will act in a professional manner when the situation
warrants it.
I am not comfortable stating that there is consensus on an
Internet-Draft when participation is from a small number of
individuals having some affiliation in common. That creates an
appearance of a private club.
It is difficult to convince someone who is, for example, from a
developing country that the IETF is a large open international
community when a quick look at
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/maillist.html shows
that there has only been participation from individuals from one or
two countries.
It might be that the meaning of "situation" in my previous message
was unclear. I'll use
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg03047.html as an
example to illustrate what I was thinking about. One of the
difficulties in resolving a situation is figuring out how to avoid
the perception of a private club.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy