Klaas Wierenga may have said... > So in practice those participants usually show restraint and let you native > speaking alpha males fight it out at the mike.... Not sure that that improves the > quality of the IETF process..... When chairing WG meetings I have twice invited presenter and questioner to talk in their native languages to get themselves clear on what they were talking about, and then report back to the WG. While this may seem like a small step forward, most of the discussion on this list has focussed on a mind-set that I find to be "use my language, not English". There are too many languages for that to be practical and a single common language is needed or we need interpretation services. I know how much the latter costs, so I favour (sic) the former. Adrian