Mentoring [Re: "Adult supervision"]

Spencer Dawkins spencer at mcsr-labs.org
Wed May 7 09:19:24 CEST 2003


Brian/Edward,

Might a problem statement for this be:

- We don't have a good way to help new participants learn "things everyone
knows". The "Tao of the IETF" is focused on work style, not technical
principles. When we try to reveal guiding technical principles as part of
post-WG document review, the input is a "late surprise", and the process
does not scale.

?

Spencer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian E Carpenter" <brian at hursley.ibm.com>
To: <problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 8:02 AM
Subject: Mentoring [Re: "Adult supervision"]


> Edward Lewis wrote:
> ...
> > If we expect
> > that every one in the IETF needs no mentoring, sooner or later there
> > will be no new folks, dooming the organization in the long run.
>
> Vigorous agreement. We badly need to *organise* the mentoring of new
> participants and upcoming authors. The Sunday afternoon briefing
> only scratches the surface.
>
> In addition to an organised team of reviewers (the promised draft is
> on its way) we probably need an organised team of mentors.
>
> (No apology for moving into solutions space at this time, even it means
> moving the discussion to another list.)
>
>    Brian



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