Geoff and all,
I wonder given your own countries history in coming to independence
as well as mine if either of us would even be here to discuss or consider
such matters...
In our country's history our greatest leaders have been the rebels.
Madison, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and of course Patrick
Henry.
Geoff Huston wrote:
> This is of course reassurring data - I'd be worried to think that the IETF
> is composed entirely of a set of such complete socipathic misfits that we
> manage to place our collective behavior well outside the accepted
> sociological norms!
>
> :-)
>
> Geoff
>
> >PS: Another fascinating result of social research is that essentially
> >all organizations of more than about 15 people are percieved as having
> >a small group of insiders that control things. It turns out that the
> >extent of this perception and the feeling of the average member about
> >it are relatively independent of how open or closed the organization
> >is or how much power whatever leaders there are actually have. As a
> >result, almost all organizations have periodic attempts by "rebels" to
> >take over from what they perceive as an entrenched old guard. Only
> >something like 5% of such attempts are successful on the average, and
> >when they are, generally within 3 months or so, the "rebels" are
> >perceived as the new insiders.
Regards,
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