(Now copying to appropriate lists, hence the response not being trimmed) --- On Mon, 18/8/08, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ovid wrote: > > One issue Salve raised is that the IETF apparently > requires *physical* meetings three times > > a year. Short of people individually ponying up the > money, this suggests > some form of > > sponsorship. Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > I roll to disbelieve. > > It seems not like the IETF to dictate the structure of a > working group so > rigidly. RFC 2418 [1] backs this up with things like > "there are few hard and > fast rules on organizing or conducting working group > activities" and "each > working group will determine the balance of email and > face-to-face sessions > that is appropriate for achieving its milestones." > All we should need is a > mailing list and a bit of structure on top of that. > > You might be conflating the IETF's own rules [2] with > the Working Group rules. > [3] We'd be a Working Group. > > > [1] ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2418.txt > [2] http://www.ietf.org/tao.html#anchor10 > [3] http://www.ietf.org/tao.html#anchor28 Schwern, I can't tell from reading the references you provide whether or what you're saying is correct, but I *think* so. Salve, can you comment on this? If we don't have to be physically present for such IETF meetings, that might help. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
