RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread l.wood
And the technology that my team is pushing would be Saratoga:
http://saratoga.sf.net
which has interoperable implementations that can do 50Mbps in perl, a decade of 
operational experience in its application domain, and mature drafts.

But this is in the transport area, and TSV has somewhat limited resources, so 
it's outside the span of attention from a wg. But still worth documenting as 
experimental.

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/



From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
Sent: 19 April 2013 10:02
To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG 
Review)

Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even 
without attending, although you would need to collaborate with some people who 
do go. But pushing a new technology requires team building anyway.

The same should apply to other non-attenders who have gained some reputation.


On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:23 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:


 and the point of your ad-hominem argument is what, exactly?

 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts


 
 From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
 Sent: 18 April 2013 15:18
 To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
 Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG   
   Review)

 Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has 
 several co-authors that I recognize as current goers. You also have a 
 current draft with several co-authors, but I have no idea whether they're 
 goers or not. Anyway, you are not a hermit. Through the RFCs and drafts 
 that you have co-authored, you know people who do attend.



Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread Yoav Nir
Well, there isn't a delay tolerant networks working group, but the IRTF has a 
DTNRG ( http://irtf.org/dtnrg ).

At least one of the chairs is a goer. If you really wanted to standardize 
this, wouldn't you be able to find 1-2 people on the DTNRG list who would be 
willing to do the BoF thing?

I'm not saying this is definitely what you should do. There are plenty of 
reasons to bring something to the IETF and to not bring it. I'm only saying 
that it is possible.

Yoav
 
On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:12 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:

 And the technology that my team is pushing would be Saratoga:
 http://saratoga.sf.net
 which has interoperable implementations that can do 50Mbps in perl, a decade 
 of operational experience in its application domain, and mature drafts.
 
 But this is in the transport area, and TSV has somewhat limited resources, so 
 it's outside the span of attention from a wg. But still worth documenting as 
 experimental.
 
 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/
 
 
 
 From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
 Sent: 19 April 2013 10:02
 To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
 Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG   
   Review)
 
 Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even 
 without attending, although you would need to collaborate with some people 
 who do go. But pushing a new technology requires team building anyway.
 
 The same should apply to other non-attenders who have gained some reputation.
 
 
 On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:23 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
 
 
 and the point of your ad-hominem argument is what, exactly?
 
 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts
 
 
 
 From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
 Sent: 18 April 2013 15:18
 To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
 Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG  
Review)
 
 Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has 
 several co-authors that I recognize as current goers. You also have a 
 current draft with several co-authors, but I have no idea whether they're 
 goers or not. Anyway, you are not a hermit. Through the RFCs and drafts 
 that you have co-authored, you know people who do attend.
 
 
 Email secured by Check Point



Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread Joe Touch



On 4/19/2013 2:02 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:

Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even 
without attending,


IETF work officially happens on IETF lists, not at in-person meetings.

As per the Tao of the IETF: Any decision made at a face-to-face meeting 
must also gain consensus on the WG mailing list.


Team-building is also useful, but not necessary, and also can happen 
off-list and at other non-IETF meetings.


Joe


RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread l.wood

and the point of your ad-hominem argument is what, exactly?

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts



From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
Sent: 18 April 2013 15:18
To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG 
Review)

Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has 
several co-authors that I recognize as current goers. You also have a current 
draft with several co-authors, but I have no idea whether they're goers or 
not. Anyway, you are not a hermit. Through the RFCs and drafts that you have 
co-authored, you know people who do attend.


Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even 
without attending, although you would need to collaborate with some people who 
do go. But pushing a new technology requires team building anyway.

The same should apply to other non-attenders who have gained some reputation.


On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:23 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:

 
 and the point of your ad-hominem argument is what, exactly?
 
 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts
 
 
 
 From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
 Sent: 18 April 2013 15:18
 To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
 Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG   
   Review)
 
 Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has 
 several co-authors that I recognize as current goers. You also have a 
 current draft with several co-authors, but I have no idea whether they're 
 goers or not. Anyway, you are not a hermit. Through the RFCs and drafts 
 that you have co-authored, you know people who do attend.



RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread l.wood

Not sure about the recognition for technical work.

To progress technical work, you have to go to meetings. To progress in the IETF 
(chair, AD, IESG) you have to go to meetings.

Keep turning up and don't be too obviously completely abysmal technically, and 
you can get a status dot on your badge.

The IETF is run by goers, and goers like goers.

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/



From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dale R. Worley 
[wor...@ariadne.com]
Sent: 17 April 2013 21:38
To: ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG 
Review)

 From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com

 On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote:
  I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before
  (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but
  in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we accept
  that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, but
  reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.

 I thought your original message (the one you cite above) was very
 good, but I'm not sure I like the terms low-status and
 high-status, simply because tey could be easily taken to mean
 something other than what I think you intend them to mean.

We do have a status system within the IETF and generally one gains
status within that system by recognized technical work.  And on
certain sorts of issues, particularly changes in processes, we don't
listen well to people who don't have high status within that system.
In that regard, the IETF is far from egalitarian.

In regard to diversity issues, it is important to ask whether position
in the status system is directly affected by factors other than just
technical contribution.

Probably more important for diversity issues is that factors in a
person's life other than their outright technical ability can strongly
affect their ability to contribute to our technical work, and thus
achieve the status needed to be influential.

A more subtle problem is whether technical contribution correlates
well the skills needed for leadership positions -- does being a
quality technical contributor demonstrate the skills needed to be an
effective IAB member?  Although given the discussion around IESG
review, it seems that the reward for gaining the leadership position
of IESG membership is becoming an extremely busy technical reviewer of
standards...

Dale


Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Yoav Nir
Not entirely true.

It is true that getting management positions (chairs, AD, NomCom) requires 
meeting attendance. But a non-attender can get recognition for quality 
technical points, and can even progress technical work. RFC 4478 was published 
long before I attended my first meeting. My own working group (WebSec) has 
document authors who never attend meetings. In other areas there are frequent 
and prolific contributors, who either never attended a meeting or have quit 
attending them years ago. Even the directorates have such people.

So no, you probably can't get a dot for your badge without actually having one, 
but you can become prominent in the sense that people might say this 
document hasn't had enough review. Let's ask so-and-so to read it, or I'm 
putting together a design team for foo. Let's see if we can get so-and-so to 
join

Yoav

On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:31 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:

 
 Not sure about the recognition for technical work.
 
 To progress technical work, you have to go to meetings. To progress in the 
 IETF (chair, AD, IESG) you have to go to meetings.
 
 Keep turning up and don't be too obviously completely abysmal technically, 
 and you can get a status dot on your badge.
 
 The IETF is run by goers, and goers like goers.
 
 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/
 
 
 
 From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dale R. 
 Worley [wor...@ariadne.com]
 Sent: 17 April 2013 21:38
 To: ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG   
   Review)
 
 From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com
 
 On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote:
 I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before
 (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but
 in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we accept
 that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, but
 reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.
 
 I thought your original message (the one you cite above) was very
 good, but I'm not sure I like the terms low-status and
 high-status, simply because tey could be easily taken to mean
 something other than what I think you intend them to mean.
 
 We do have a status system within the IETF and generally one gains
 status within that system by recognized technical work.  And on
 certain sorts of issues, particularly changes in processes, we don't
 listen well to people who don't have high status within that system.
 In that regard, the IETF is far from egalitarian.
 
 In regard to diversity issues, it is important to ask whether position
 in the status system is directly affected by factors other than just
 technical contribution.
 
 Probably more important for diversity issues is that factors in a
 person's life other than their outright technical ability can strongly
 affect their ability to contribute to our technical work, and thus
 achieve the status needed to be influential.
 
 A more subtle problem is whether technical contribution correlates
 well the skills needed for leadership positions -- does being a
 quality technical contributor demonstrate the skills needed to be an
 effective IAB member?  Although given the discussion around IESG
 review, it seems that the reward for gaining the leadership position
 of IESG membership is becoming an extremely busy technical reviewer of
 standards...
 
 Dale
 
 Email secured by Check Point



RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread l.wood
I've written RFCs without attending meetings; easy to do if the work is a 
aligned with a workgroup.

That's fine if you're happy to be a technical resource with skills to be drawn 
upon for problems set by others.

However, if you're sufficiently technical that you can set new technical 
directions that are outside the scope of existing wgs -- well, the political 
enters the technical, and you need to fake being a goer to build interest and 
support for the direction, eg by holding a bof. Many existing managers have 
run wgs, but have they even attempted to establish new technical directions? If 
not, they're just bureaucrats. Safe pairs of hands. And probably not that 
technical.

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/



From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
Sent: 18 April 2013 10:02
To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG 
Review)

Not entirely true.

It is true that getting management positions (chairs, AD, NomCom) requires 
meeting attendance. But a non-attender can get recognition for quality 
technical points, and can even progress technical work. RFC 4478 was published 
long before I attended my first meeting. My own working group (WebSec) has 
document authors who never attend meetings. In other areas there are frequent 
and prolific contributors, who either never attended a meeting or have quit 
attending them years ago. Even the directorates have such people.

So no, you probably can't get a dot for your badge without actually having one, 
but you can become prominent in the sense that people might say this 
document hasn't had enough review. Let's ask so-and-so to read it, or I'm 
putting together a design team for foo. Let's see if we can get so-and-so to 
join

Yoav

On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:31 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:


 Not sure about the recognition for technical work.

 To progress technical work, you have to go to meetings. To progress in the 
 IETF (chair, AD, IESG) you have to go to meetings.

 Keep turning up and don't be too obviously completely abysmal technically, 
 and you can get a status dot on your badge.

 The IETF is run by goers, and goers like goers.

 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/


 
 From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dale R. 
 Worley [wor...@ariadne.com]
 Sent: 17 April 2013 21:38
 To: ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG   
   Review)

 From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com

 On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote:
 I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before
 (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but
 in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we accept
 that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, but
 reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.

 I thought your original message (the one you cite above) was very
 good, but I'm not sure I like the terms low-status and
 high-status, simply because tey could be easily taken to mean
 something other than what I think you intend them to mean.

 We do have a status system within the IETF and generally one gains
 status within that system by recognized technical work.  And on
 certain sorts of issues, particularly changes in processes, we don't
 listen well to people who don't have high status within that system.
 In that regard, the IETF is far from egalitarian.

 In regard to diversity issues, it is important to ask whether position
 in the status system is directly affected by factors other than just
 technical contribution.

 Probably more important for diversity issues is that factors in a
 person's life other than their outright technical ability can strongly
 affect their ability to contribute to our technical work, and thus
 achieve the status needed to be influential.

 A more subtle problem is whether technical contribution correlates
 well the skills needed for leadership positions -- does being a
 quality technical contributor demonstrate the skills needed to be an
 effective IAB member?  Although given the discussion around IESG
 review, it seems that the reward for gaining the leadership position
 of IESG membership is becoming an extremely busy technical reviewer of
 standards...

 Dale

 Email secured by Check Point



RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Yoav Nir
Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has 
several co-authors that I recognize as current goers. You also have a current 
draft with several co-authors, but I have no idea whether they're goers or 
not. Anyway, you are not a hermit. Through the RFCs and drafts that you have 
co-authored, you know people who do attend.

You anyway can't get a really new technical direction all by yourself. You 
always need to form a group, whether that group is a bar BoF or a formal IETF 
mailing list, or whatever. I don't think you can get a new thing into the IETF 
without a group of 4-7 people, regardless of whether you attend the meeting. 
The only advantage in attending is that it makes it easy to socialize your idea 
and assemble the avengers, but I've seen it done outside a meeting. As long 
as you have a goer in your team, you can move things forward.

Yes, I attend because I think that makes me more effective. If for any reason I 
were no longer able to attend, I think I would still participate meaningfully. 

-Original Message-
From: l.w...@surrey.ac.uk [mailto:l.w...@surrey.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:12 PM
To: Yoav Nir
Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG 
Review)

I've written RFCs without attending meetings; easy to do if the work is a 
aligned with a workgroup.

That's fine if you're happy to be a technical resource with skills to be drawn 
upon for problems set by others.

However, if you're sufficiently technical that you can set new technical 
directions that are outside the scope of existing wgs -- well, the political 
enters the technical, and you need to fake being a goer to build interest and 
support for the direction, eg by holding a bof. Many existing managers have 
run wgs, but have they even attempted to establish new technical directions? If 
not, they're just bureaucrats. Safe pairs of hands. And probably not that 
technical.

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/



From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com]
Sent: 18 April 2013 10:02
To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG 
Review)

Not entirely true.

It is true that getting management positions (chairs, AD, NomCom) requires 
meeting attendance. But a non-attender can get recognition for quality 
technical points, and can even progress technical work. RFC 4478 was published 
long before I attended my first meeting. My own working group (WebSec) has 
document authors who never attend meetings. In other areas there are frequent 
and prolific contributors, who either never attended a meeting or have quit 
attending them years ago. Even the directorates have such people.

So no, you probably can't get a dot for your badge without actually having one, 
but you can become prominent in the sense that people might say this 
document hasn't had enough review. Let's ask so-and-so to read it, or I'm 
putting together a design team for foo. Let's see if we can get so-and-so to 
join

Yoav

On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:31 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:


 Not sure about the recognition for technical work.

 To progress technical work, you have to go to meetings. To progress in the 
 IETF (chair, AD, IESG) you have to go to meetings.

 Keep turning up and don't be too obviously completely abysmal technically, 
 and you can get a status dot on your badge.

 The IETF is run by goers, and goers like goers.

 Lloyd Wood
 http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/


 
 From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dale 
 R. Worley [wor...@ariadne.com]
 Sent: 17 April 2013 21:38
 To: ietf@ietf.org
 Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG   
   Review)

 From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com

 On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote:
 I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before 
 (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), 
 but in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we 
 accept that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, 
 but reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.

 I thought your original message (the one you cite above) was very 
 good, but I'm not sure I like the terms low-status and 
 high-status, simply because tey could be easily taken to mean 
 something other than what I think you intend them to mean.

 We do have a status system within the IETF and generally one gains 
 status within that system by recognized technical work.  And on 
 certain sorts of issues, particularly changes in processes, we don't 
 listen well to people who don't have high status within that system.
 In that regard, the IETF is far from egalitarian.

 In regard to diversity issues, it is important

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 18, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote:
 but you can become prominent in the sense that people might say this 
 document hasn't had enough review. Let's ask so-and-so to read it

Yes, it's worth noting that working group chairs are often desperate for people 
about whom they can say this, so whether you attend in person or not, if you 
are active on the mailing list and give good reviews and do good work, you will 
get asked for this kind of help, and that does mean that you have high status.

I agree with Lloyd's criticism that you can't get everything this way, though, 
because we don't give off-site non-attendees an easy turn at the mic.   We do 
try, but it's not the same if you aren't there in person.



Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-17 Thread Dale R. Worley
 From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com
 
 On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote:
  I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before
  (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but
  in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we accept
  that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, but
  reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.
 
 I thought your original message (the one you cite above) was very
 good, but I'm not sure I like the terms low-status and
 high-status, simply because tey could be easily taken to mean
 something other than what I think you intend them to mean.

We do have a status system within the IETF and generally one gains
status within that system by recognized technical work.  And on
certain sorts of issues, particularly changes in processes, we don't
listen well to people who don't have high status within that system.
In that regard, the IETF is far from egalitarian.

In regard to diversity issues, it is important to ask whether position
in the status system is directly affected by factors other than just
technical contribution.

Probably more important for diversity issues is that factors in a
person's life other than their outright technical ability can strongly
affect their ability to contribute to our technical work, and thus
achieve the status needed to be influential.

A more subtle problem is whether technical contribution correlates
well the skills needed for leadership positions -- does being a
quality technical contributor demonstrate the skills needed to be an
effective IAB member?  Although given the discussion around IESG
review, it seems that the reward for gaining the leadership position
of IESG membership is becoming an extremely busy technical reviewer of
standards...

Dale


Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-16 Thread Dale R. Worley
  How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager
  about the manager's decisions or performance?
 
 It is IMO the *obligation* of a professional to call his manager on
 wrong decisions or performance.

I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before
(http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but
in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we accept
that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, but
reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.

Dale


Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote:
 I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before
 (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but
 in the current context it bears repeating:  Here in the IETF we accept
 that low-status people may argue regarding technical matters, but
 reserve for high-status people having opinions about our procedures.

I thought your original message (the one you cite above) was very good, but I'm 
not sure I like the terms low-status and high-status, simply because tey 
could be easily taken to mean something other than what I think you intend them 
to mean.



Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-15 Thread Klaas Wierenga

 
 On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Abdussalam Baryun 
 abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote:
 How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the 
 manager's decisions or performance? Only Owners/shareholders can question 
 managers and staff. IMO, the meeting/list discussions on any issue without an 
 I-D written is the staff talking/working.

??? Not in the country I live in or the company I work for. It is IMO the 
*obligation* of a professional to call his manager on wrong decisions or 
performance. I think you have a strange view on IETF leadership, I for one, as 
a chair of a WG regard myself as the *servant* of the WG rather than the 
*boss*. We decide based on consensus, not on hierarchy.

Klaas

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-13 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Arturo, and all,
(sorry that this message is long but I want to make this my last post
on the subject)

The reason of this message/subject is that I want to avoid some group
working together to achieve their purpose (while they may be fogetting
the IETF purpose) within a WG. If I am a company and interested to
publish a standard in IETF, I may think to find interest in my market
place (i.e. interest usually in my local country or city which depends
on relations), when that is gained then the purpose is to publish it
in IETF while there already gauranteed sort of back up in that
country/city. I name that a *group purpose* not the *WG purpose*.
Group purpose is good but may lack technical experience, which needs
following WG purpose.

Any group (usually authors+ WhoInterestedToPublish) needs to convence
the WG by technical discussions. Consensus and running code, may work
for the group purpose more than the WG purpose if the WG are not
reactive to inputs. I recommend that WG chairs are already aware of
this and try to find independent reviewers from the WG to put some
effort before it is submitted to the IESG. Usually WG participants are
bussy and may not be interested to argue with a group (one reviewer
may get many replies with arguments that he/she has no much time to
DISCUSS, or reply).

 That is why the IESG's DISCUSS position is strong and important to
make the group answer to purpose, and that position is weak in WGs.
Groups always don't like delays in process, but WGs don't like
changing their IETF purpose or their IETF vision. I recommend that WG
chairs try to do their best to have two independent WG participants to
review (not authors and not from the same company of authors or same
state/city).

If you send me a reply I will reply privately so I don't disturb,
because the subject may not be important for others, thanking you,

AB

We need diversity :-)
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On 4/12/13, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote:


 On 4/12/13 4:58 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:
 I just change the subject because I still beleive the problem with
 review is in the WG not IESG. Some WGs have few reviews on each WG
 document, that may not be bad, but I think having only one review or
 comment (excluding authors) within a WGLC is wrong in a WG review
 process. I think WG chair can find two participants to do it.

   It seems plausible.


 I recommend WG's process to change their purpose so we have to get *two
 participants* which are not authors to review the work and comment
 within WGLC (even small text comment is ok). I recommend WG chairs to
 think about this proposal, if not then I will try write an I-D for this
 and communicate with community.

   Possible we would need any how an I+D to change the process and mandate
 this new review.

   I haven't made my mind but it seems like a good idea.


 AB

 Regards
 as



Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin


On 4/12/13 4:58 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:
 I just change the subject because I still beleive the problem with
 review is in the WG not IESG. Some WGs have few reviews on each WG
 document, that may not be bad, but I think having only one review or
 comment (excluding authors) within a WGLC is wrong in a WG review
 process. I think WG chair can find two participants to do it.

It seems plausible.

  
 I recommend WG's process to change their purpose so we have to get *two
 participants* which are not authors to review the work and comment
 within WGLC (even small text comment is ok). I recommend WG chairs to
 think about this proposal, if not then I will try write an I-D for this
 and communicate with community.

Possible we would need any how an I+D to change the process and mandate
this new review.

I haven't made my mind but it seems like a good idea.

  
 AB

Regards
as