Re:

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

John and all,

  I guess the real or more appropriate question is, why should anyone
that wishes to attend to prevented from doing so?

John C Klensin wrote:

> --On Wednesday, 11 September, 2002 14:58 -0400 Scott Bradner
> <sob@harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> >> We also have the working group rosters that people write
> >> their names  in.  That might be a possible way of validating
> >> that someone one also  participated in the meeting.
> >
> > once upon a time these were typed into a database but that
> > stopped  a while back - they are still being done as part of
> > the documentation process needed in today's standardization
> > world (they are kept at the secretariat for retrieval if
> > needed) so it would be laborious to use the sign in sheets as
> > proof
>
> Perhaps more to the point, if someone who is basically a
> non-attendee wants to get onto the nomcom sufficiently much to
> pay registration fees for standing around the halls, nothing
> would prevent him or her from wandering into enough WG meeting
> rooms for long enough to write a name on a few blue sheets (or
> to ask someone else to do it).   Those sheets are just not a
> very good check on someone who wants to beat the system.  And
> those who understand the spirit of the rule and want to work
> with it are, IMO, extremely unlikely to volunteer for the Nomcom.
>
>      john
>
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