I think you misheard me, or I misspoke. I would be the last person to suggest
we should turn away new people. But many people come to exactly one meeting
(I can't quote statistics, but the Secretariat knows the numbers), and this
seems all wrong to me - the IETF only makes sense for sustained participation
(by email or in person). So the people who only come to one meeting almost
certainly come under a false presumption about what an IETF meeting is.
With one exception of course - local attendees, especially when we meet
outside the US.
I hope to see you in Minneapolis in March.
Brian
"Robert G. Ferrell" wrote:
>
> >We *should* worry about people
> >who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came
> >to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy.
>
> Well, you've certainly convinced me never to attend a meeting.
>
> The attitude being promulgated by the majority of these posts,
> whether justified or not, is most likely to lead (IMO)
> to IETF meetings populated by two distinct groups of people:
>
> 1) Old timers
> 2) The clueless masses
>
> Everyone else will be afraid to show up.
>
> When the old timers are gone, all that will be left are the clueless;
> down that path lurks madness and anarchy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> RGF
>
> Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP
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