Is this really where we want to go? (was: Re: Selecting leadership, take 2)

[Randy Bush]

> That is why I tried to make the specific example extreme enough 
> to be silly.  The topic deserves, IMO, discussion.  And I find 
> it interesting, and useful, that you did exactly what I was 
> advocating (and that Ted followed up on in more detail and more 
> eloquently than my original statement): to oversimplify, you 
> stated the possible problem ("shortness of meetings"), explained 
> the presumed bad effects ("slow convergence and poor quality"), 
> identified a remedy other than the four-week IETFs of my 
> strawman (interim meetings), and identified a possible downside 
> ("standards professionals" and "loss of wide perspective").  So, 
> I think, we should now be able to have all of those discussions 
> (and I am pleased that two have already started), including, 
> explicitly, the "email versus meeting time" tradeoff that Jari 
> raised.
> 
> That, it seems to me, is how we make progress.

may work for one issue.  does not scale.  try it with 20 issues and
there is chaos.

randy