A 100.000 foot perspective on "what is the problem"

[Melinda Shore]

> the clue was sent early and repeatedly, the force came later, as it
> seemed necessary to get it to penetrate the group beyond the chair
> and a few with clue.

It's a problem that's cropping up repeatedly in working
groups where there tends to be a lot of participants who
have backgrounds in ATM or the PSTN.  The biggest ones that
we hit over and over and over again are 1) finding stuff is
easy and 2) understanding where stuff sits in relation to
other stuff is easy.  In those other networks, it is.  I
think I might actually characterize it in those cases as an
idiom problem rather than a clue problem - we've got a lot
of participants who speak a different networking idiom and
may have very deep expertise there, yet when they speak IP
it comes out a little garbled.  Maybe we need I* people
riding closer herd on those working groups where this is a
problem, or maybe the "Note Well" statement should include
"FINDING STUFF ISN'T EASY."

At any rate we do need to find a way to make sure of two
things, I think: 1) problems like these that show up in
documents don't persist through WG last call, and 2) when
they do come up earlier in the process they don't take weeks
of argument to resolve.

Melinda