[142752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Tue Jul 12 15:41:23 2011
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:40:15 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110712154202.GA45271@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Leo Bicknell wrote:
In short, make it easy for the operators to participate at the right
> time in the process. It will be better for everyone!
Unfortunately, where you want to be inserted into the process is when everybody has
said their piece 80-dozen times and are tired and just want to get on with life. So
it doesn't matter whether you're an operator or the IESG -- you're not going to make
many friends at that point telling them they got it wrong.
On the other hand, is it really too much to ask operators -- especially big ones with
a vested interest in not having the IETF throw crap over the wall for them to debug --
to *hire* a liaison whose job is to monitor a swath of working groups, bofs, etc, and
participate the entire way through? I imagine they'd be pretty popular amongst clueful
vendors, and would give you a leg up knowing what's good and what's just sales-drek.
Mike
