> I will vote the opposite of whatever IP brokers vote.Their view is
> strictly commercial whereas I am not part of that subgroup.
i understand your position. but my problems are up a couple of layers.
we have based our community's financial viability on recruiting a lot
of new members. while having new blood is a good balance to us old
fossils, the culture relied too much on unspoken common perceptions,
practices, and goals. we are not good at articulating them and making
them accessible to the new blood. so we write more and more complex
policy documents, have lots of votes, ... [0].
and the world is changing, becoming more commercial, less academic and
public service oriented. and some of us do not do as well with change
as we might; a well-known trait of the, sad to say, majority gender.
we need to get over it.
i do not think we can, or maybe not even should want to, roll things
back to the rosier (or so we fondly think) past. but we can try to
move forward with some courtesy and civility and an effort to see
everyone's viewpoint, especially of those with whom we think we
disagree.
and we can try to explain our positions and expectations a bit more
clearly in order to compensate for the lack of documentation (that is
not a plea for more policy documents or paperwork).
randy
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0 - this ongoing wg chair voting thing is such a great example. we had
a small problem and the cure is a monster. hence my 'pigasus' (you
have to google it; i was there) comment.
