Hi Denis, > I am an 'active' co-chair. I strongly resent the implication from both > you and Randy that I am an 'activist' co-chair. An activist is "a > person who uses or supports strong actions (such as public protests) > to help make changes in politics or society". Completely inappropriate > language to use in this context. > > You also referred to me "taking a specific point of view". Yes, > sometimes I do this for a number of reasons. One example was in the > discussion about the "country:" attribute. The discussion was slow and > in-precise. I put forward the idea of introducing a new "geo-country:" > attribute with a clear geolocation definition to replace "country:" > with. This was one of my crazy ideas that I knew would never happen. > But it had the effect of focussing people's minds to agree that > "geofeed:" is the way to go with the eventual deprecation of the > "country:" attribute. As Gert said, everyone is free to reject any > idea I put forward and agree on something else. That is exactly what > people did in this case and that was a result.
This is exactly what I meant when I said more active chairing would be welcome. I didn’t mean “pushing for a certain outcome”, that would indeed not be good. But making suggestions, getting the WG to be more active etc. are all good. And that is how I understood your original message. Active but not activist :) Cheers! Sander -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/db-wg