Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>]

Brian,

What _is_ the issue? Continent of residency?

When I look, with all the limitations of my own eyes, at the people who have
made policy in the IAB and IESG in the problem domain of character sets, and
memory-aligned fundamental types, I just don't see a lot of expertise.

We study flow symmetry, but we appear to believe that our practice either
isn't simularity-encouraging, or that it isn't a problem because in principle
it isn't a problem. [insert sunscreen here]

The v6 trampoline code had the comment /* You are not expected to understand
this.*/  I clearly don't understand the international question, if it can be
answered by substituting one bunch of nationals by another bunch of nationals.

I don't care about musical chairs. I do care about expertise. Of course, the
problem area could be out of scope, or I could be completely mistaken. I've
heard both points of view expressed.

Please consider responding without using the keyword "politics", just treat
this as if we'd just discovered that we'd limited transport or applications
clue, nothing scarrier, and that there may be more to this detail (thanks kre)
than second guessing some other standards body. Using "fiddlesticks" is fine.

Eric