Killing old/slow groups - transition thinking

[Dave Crocker]

Harald,


Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 6:00:32 AM, you wrote:
Harald> Lots of WGs-to-be have had negative feedback on milestones placed two years
Harald> or more out - in this industry, planning that far ahead is extremely chancy.
Harald> Some have responded by moving them up - others by dropping them and instead 
Harald> placing a "let's think about what to do next" milestone on their agenda.

You are making a fundamental observation here.  We need to pay some
attention to the implications of the observation on IETF productivity.

The industry we are serving is not very good at timescales more than 2 years
out.  Yet the IETF is showing a pattern of requiring more than that.

So the problem is not simply to set "artificial" deadlines and then ignore
them, but to set deadlines that are consonant with the industry we are
serving, and to meet those deadlines.

d/
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