Re: Welcoming newcomers

[Bill Manning <bmanning at zed.isi.edu>]

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%         I was not present so I could not clarify.  It does seem pretty
%         clear that these days, "bad-ideas" are often floated and experimented
%         with in other venues and only after vetting are brought to the IETF
%         for standards approval/rubber stamping. 
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% in my experience, plenty of bad ideas survive such "vetting".
% but those who bring them to IETF still expect the rubber stamp.
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True. The point being that the IETF is becoming a "rubber-stamp" for
work already complete. This sad state of affairs is, IMHO, part of the
reason for the lack of tolerance. 

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--bill