Re: DISCUSSION: archiving of NOMCOM information

[Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>]

    Date:        Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:26:57 -0800
    From:        "todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
    Message-ID:  <039601c1cd07$65a323a0$020aff0c@tsg1>

  | Then how is this process comparable to that of any other standards
  | organization? The answer is simple. They are not.

And exactly why is this question relevant?   The IETF has never set out
to copy other organisations, or not that I'm aware of.  Things always
have been different.

But which other standards organisation is it that records every utterance
anyone makes, including those expressly made "in confidence" ?

I recall attending a meeting of a different org once (a while ago now), and
I'm pretty sure I made a comment to one of the other attendees that all that
was being done was nonsense, both technically, and the way it was being
managed.

Is that comment recorded somewhere for posterity?   I didn't attend many
of those meetings, they weren't worth the effort - but the other guy kept
on going (for at least a while after that) I believe.   It is possible
(for all I know) that my comment in the aisle had some long lasting impact
upon the work produced.   Surely it is on record somewhere...

Or perhaps not, after all.

kre