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Re: Sincerely requesting help for my Doctoral Research

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Sat Dec 11 15:07:54 2004

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:07:22 -0800 (PST)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Ananth <anantc99@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041210235544.83508.qmail@web50801.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Ananth wrote:

  As part of my doctoral dissertation, I am
  working on how best to come to a consensus when
  capturing knowledge, and am studying the effectiveness
  of two techniques. I am writing to request help
  because in order for my research to contribute
  meaningfully, I need the participation of real world
  experts and not students.

Spend a few days reading nanog and you'll realize that there isnt a 
lot of expertise here on coming to consensus. I'd direct you to the 
ietf which has always been chartered as consensus-driven, but in my 
experience, thats not the case either.

good luck,

matt ghali

--matt@snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin><
              The only thing necessary for the triumph
              of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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