[30990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bring sense to the ietf - volunteer for nomcom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Sep 4 07:59:46 2000
Date: 4 Sep 2000 04:58:01 -0700
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To: jhawk@bbnplanet.com
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 03 September 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:
> > I believe it was you who pointed out to me several years ago, real
> > operators have more important things to do than volunteer for public
> > service stuff.
>
> Perhaps some of us think the IETF is more important than "public service
> stuff."
Whether you call it volunteer, or pro bono, or contributing to the
community; the nature of IETF does seem to be changing. I don't know
if operators are finding the IETF less useful, or the folks interested
in working in the IETF have migrated to positions in other types of
organizations.
