ISSUE: Recognizing that conflict over the IETF principles can exist
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Jun 20 22:30:33 CEST 2003
Section 2.7 of -issue- says:
The IETF currently has voluntary and inconsistent processes for
educating its participants which may be why significant numbers of
participants seem to fail to conform to the proper principles when
working in the IETF context.
The people in authority have generally been steeped in the principles
of the IETF (as they see them) and first-time non-compliance by newer
participants is sometimes treated as an opportunity for abuse rather
than by recognition of a training failure.
ISSUE: This paragraph ignores the fact that some participants understand
the principles, but disagree with them; the openness principle says that we
do not exclude such people. So we need to expect conflict.
SUGGESTED RESOLUTION: Not clear.....
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