RE: Start running

["Tony Li" <Tony.Li@procket.com>]

Kurt,

|    Although I generally tend to agree with your view, I do 
|    think that we 
|    need let everyone present their opinions and evaluate 
|    them.


I fully endorse this.  But the implication of drafting full blown
proposals for each alternative is not one where you, as a manager,
set yourself up for success.  You instantly make it competitive and
not collaborative.

|    You and me 
|    have a certain view of where to go, maybe that is where we 
|    will end up 
|    eventually (of-course I hope so), but in order to start 
|    working on one 
|    single solution we need to have a consensus saying that is 
|    where we 
|    want to go. And we wont get there unless we have looked at the 
|    alternatives thoroughly.


Then we should apply good engineering practices (see problem
statement WG) and bound the problem, partition the solution space
and discuss the high level approaches.  Only after we have consensus
should we be pushing down into more details.

    
|    I have no problem with loading the chairs (I guess Sean 
|    will give me a 
|    hard time for this...:) ) if that brings us forward, and I 
|    think you 
|    are right, but I think we need to do some other steps first.


Ok, what and when?

Tony