Re: I'm not the microphone police, but ...

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at mcsr-labs.org>]

> I am sure large corporations would be more careful at sending  their 
> high-order IQ if they known that their inputs will tagged with the 
> company name.

What a wonderful world it would be, if that were true...

I'm pretty sure that less than 0.001 percent of the management teams 
at my IETF sponsors since 1996 had any idea that I was even ATTENDING 
the IETF, and our process documents point out repeatedly that it's not 
necessary to actually attend IETF face-to-face meetings in order to 
participate in the IETF.

My current sponsor is quite clear that I am, and will be, 
participating in the IETF, but that's not true for most of the people 
I talk to on IETF mailing lists. It's quite possible to be an 
excellent document editor, and probably even a reasonable working 
group chair, with very minimal sponsor awareness. I've paid my own way 
to IETFs twice, both times as WG/BOF chairs, and I know that others 
have paid their own way many more times than I have.

If an employee doesn't fill out a travel authorization to attend the 
face to face meetings, does anyone on the management team even hear 
this tree fall?

Spencer 



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