RE: Stuckees and design issues

["Spencer Dawkins" <sdawkins@cynetanetworks.com>]

Hi, David,

I agree about being able to identify "usual suspects" - my most
recent time in front of the room has been at a BOF, and
I'm thinking a community that's just forming (during first year
after chartering) is harder.

But your suggestion is always appropriate, stuckees or no stuckees!

Spencer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:35 PM
> To: Spencer Dawkins; wgchairs@ietf.org
> Subject: Stuckees and design issues
> 
> 
> > Speaking only for myself, it would be easier to survey 
> > stuckees than trying to envision how many people in the room 
> > (which may be packed because of tourists), on the mailing 
> > list (high lurker-to-poster ratio), or even on a variety of 
> > design teams (if you weren't at the meeting) REALLY care.
> 
> A technique I've used with some success in meetings is to ask
> for a show of hands of how many people understand or care about
> the issue before asking for show of hands on the alternatives.
> This depends on the honesty of participants to avoid "ballot-box
> stuffing", but for all but truly enormous WGs, I think a chair
> can develop a sense of who the regular attendees/participants
> are after a few meetings.
> 
> Thanks,
> --David
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