Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-09 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: SM s...@resistor.net To: Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:34 PM Hi Ted, At 11:46 08-11-2012, Ted Hardie wrote: Thinking a bit about the directions that conversation took, I think there is both a relatively

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-09 Thread Ted Hardie
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Ted, Hi Dave, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I think some of the points you make below echo some of the issues Sam raised, particularly that the scope of authority makes increased process appropriate. I'm still

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-09 Thread Scott Brim
Ted: Very nice but I would go further. You believe that everyone in the IETF has either internalized the mission or will in the course of participating. I think the IETF has already lost that unity of mission, particularly with the influx of corporate participants who were not around in the

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-09 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Scott Brim s...@internet2.edu To: Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com Cc: IETF ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 6:32 AM Subject: Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change Ted: Very nice but I would go further. You believe that everyone in the IETF has either

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/11/2012 18:26, Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - From: Scott Brim s...@internet2.edu To: Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com Cc: IETF ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 6:32 AM Subject: Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change Ted: Very nice but I would go further. You

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-09 Thread Melinda Shore
On 11/10/2012 9:26 AM, Randy Presuhn wrote: Even in those cases, however, behaving as though those participants were primarily motivated by the IETF mission generally seems the best way to sustain the collaboration, or at least the illusion of collaboration, and hopefully get *something*

Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Ted Hardie
At the plenary last night, Andrew Sullivan set off a series of conversations at the mic lines by asking what seems at first to be a fairly simple question: why is that we seem now to have more process and less reliance on common sense? As those at the plenary will have noticed, the conversation

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Ted, Thanks for a thoughtful note. I think you may well be on to an explanation here. But there's something of a bitter irony about it. On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Ted Hardie wrote: process to restrict those unknown future incumbents. That's interesting in part because we

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Ted Hardie
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com wrote: Both of these seem right to me, but the irony is that the fear of unknown future incumbents is all by itself creating the warm, dark place where we are growing the things that hinder the mission of the organization.

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Sam Hartman
Ted == Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com writes: Ted want to trust individuals as much as we used to. That lack of Ted trust isn't directed at the current IESG, IAOC, or IAB, but at Ted future incumbents. We have come to the idea that allowing a Ted current set of office-holders to

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Dave Crocker
Ted, On 11/8/2012 2:46 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: why is that we seem now to have more process and less reliance on common sense? ... Thinking a bit about the directions that conversation took, I think there is both a relatively simple answer to Andrew's question and a much larger piece

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Ted Hardie
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu wrote: So, for myself, as the importance of the work an organization does, the maximum I am willing to trust anyone with regard to process issues decreases significantly. This is not a negative statement about any office

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread SM
Hi Ted, At 11:46 08-11-2012, Ted Hardie wrote: Thinking a bit about the directions that conversation took, I think there is both a relatively simple answer to Andrew's question and a much larger piece of context that need to be teased out of the discussion. The relatively simple answer is that

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Eliot Lear
On 11/8/12 10:34 PM, SM wrote: Frankly, I don't know what the IETF is. You are not the only one, and this needs to be fixed. Eliot

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Sam Hartman
Ted == Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com writes: Ted I think the old catchphrase for this was rule of law, not rule Ted of men, and I agree that there are fundamental benefits of Ted that approach. But the starting point of this discussion was Ted questioning why we seem to need

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Randy Bush
I don't know if there are cases where we've recently disagreed about how much latitude to grant our leadership. iaoc/marshall

Re: Common sense, process, and the nature of change

2012-11-08 Thread Eliot Lear
On 11/9/12 1:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: I don't know if there are cases where we've recently disagreed about how much latitude to grant our leadership. iaoc/marshall Not only did we not trust the leadership, but we also didn't trust the plenary! THAT has to change. Eliot