Rushing ahead - speakers and topics

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On 14. november 2002 14:48 -0800 Aaron Falk <falk@isi.edu> wrote:

> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>> - What should the IETF do, and how fast does it need to do it?
>>  Suggested presenter: Aaron Falk
>
> Harald-
>
> Hoping to keep everyone in sync w.r.t. expectations, let me test my
> initial thoughts on you and the group.  It sounds to me as though this
> segement start with an overview of what the IETF should be doing.  If
> so, I'd use this list from 2026:
>
> %    The goals of the Internet Standards Process are:
> %    o  technical excellence;
> %    o  prior implementation and testing;
> %    o  clear, concise, and easily understood documentation;
> %    o  openness and fairness;  and
> %    o  timeliness.
>
> and extract items from your issue list which put the first four
> bullets above in conflict with the last one.  (I.e., Why Do Things
> Take So Long And Is That Always A Bad Thing?)
>
> Perhaps a better subtitle would be "When Does Being Slow Cause
> Problems?"
>
> Is this what you had in mind?

Yes, that sounds very close to what I was thinking of.