>>> I'm not mad or anything, 
>>
>> I can’t express how happy this reassurance makes me.
>
> Sounds like not much.


Au contraire! 😃


> But call me back when you've managed Mozilla's NSS and Rust teams. :)


My strong decades-long preference has been to stay technical, and avoid 
managing people. Through industrial research years, where/when most of my RFCs 
were written and published, and after that. Even leading technical/project 
teams is too much now — though I do have my scars.


> That's a lot different from an academic task. After all, it's rough consensus 
> and running code. 


How would I know — my SNMP code has/had been running in all of the IBM 
products, including AS/400 (you can appreciate this fact only if you know what 
kind of beast that nice machine is). A pity you weren’t around during the 
“great battles” of SNMPv2 — that’s when the “roughness” of the consensus (and 
the clashes of the “key” participants) truly shone. 😃 


> Both approaches are valuable.


Back in the 90-ties, I was sure of that. Now, observing the role that (some) 
academics play in discussions in this WG — not so sure anymore.


BTW, I’m doing R&D, not “academic research” — in case it matters (which it 
probably doesn’t, but then electrons are cheap).

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