My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Spencer Dawkins]

Well, while we're trying to read Jonne's mind, may I chime in?

I took Brian's pointer to look at some 1991 IAB minutes, and
thought they looked GREAT. (Specifically,
http://www.iab.org/IABmins/IABmins.1991-01-08.arch.html)

I looked at some 1998 minutes, and they looked like IESG minutes
:-{. (Specifically,
http://www.iab.org/IABmins/IABmins.1998-01-20.html).

I liked the most recent minutes
(http://www.iab.org/IABmins/IABmins.2003-03-18.html) better than
the 1998 minutes, but not as much as the 1991 minutes.

I've never discussed an IAB meeting with any IAB member, but the
trend in minutes looks like IAB moved from discussing ideas to
discussing documents. I trust that's not true - but you can't
tell it from the minutes!

Spencer, who will be reading through the archive, because I'm
learning a lot from what I'm reading there...

--- Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
> What do you think about recent IAB minutes, as far as the
> level of
> detail goes?
> 
> Historically, IAB minutes have varied between very detailed
> (e.g. 1991)
> and very brief (e.g. 1998); but recently they have been
> somewhere 
> in the middle.
> 
> http://www.iab.org/IABmins/index.html
> 
>    Brian