Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-07-31 Thread Melinda Shore
Yoav Nir wrote: Who's "folks"? A lot of people come to an IETF meeting, and are > only following one or two of the working groups. That does not mean > that they sit in their hotel rooms for the rest of the meeting. > Instead, they pick what looks like interesting meetings, and go > there, with

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-07-31 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 31, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> At 9:32 AM -0800 7/30/10, Melinda Shore wrote: >> >>> The implication that there needs to be a session, with a room >>> and slides and humans sitting in chairs, kind of suggests that >>> people who want to participate in the IETF have to a

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-07-31 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
> At 9:32 AM -0800 7/30/10, Melinda Shore wrote: > >>The implication that there needs to be a session, with a room >>and slides and humans sitting in chairs, kind of suggests that >>people who want to participate in the IETF have to attend >>meetings. > > "participate" is too strong a word. Schedul

RE: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

2010-07-31 Thread Ross Callon
I saw proposals for two pools from which nomcom members might be chosen. I don't think that anyone is proposing that once chosen, there is any distinction between the 10 voting nomcom members. When I was a liaison to nomcom, it seemed to me that the ten voting members acted as peers, with no one