Danger to the Net? (Re: My thoughts about the problems of the IETF)

[Aaron Falk]

Dave-

Sounds like a call for an ombudsman.

--aaron

Dave Crocker wrote:
> Harald,
> 
> HTA> at the risk of sounding a call for flamage....
> ...
> HTA> I am beginning to be as tired of hearing about unnamed ADs wielding unnamed
> HTA> threats to unnamed document authors over unnamed technical issues for
> HTA> unnamed political reasons as you must be of feeling the pushback.
> 
> And therein lies a major problem in the IETF right now.
> 
> There is no "risk" of flamage.  It is a certainty.
> 
> Open frank discussion of particulars about an AD is never productive
> in the IETF.
> 
> So you are probably not alone in being tired of this mode of
> communication.
> 
> However it is probably more important to be concerned that that we
> have an environment that necessitate that mode.
> 
> d/
> --
>  Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker at brandenburg.com>
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