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Re: bring sense to the ietf - volunteer for nomcom

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Mon Sep 04 08:00:31 2000 
On Sun, 03 September 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:
> > I believe it was you who pointed out to me several years ago, real
> > operators have more important things to do than volunteer for public
> > service stuff.
> 
> Perhaps some of us think the IETF is more important than "public service
> stuff."

Whether you call it volunteer, or pro bono, or contributing to the
community; the nature of IETF does seem to be changing.  I don't know
if operators are finding the IETF less useful, or the folks interested
in working in the IETF have migrated to positions in other types of
organizations.