The World Motivation
The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.
“The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.”
The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.
The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.
E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
My belief in an efficient, low-tax state was set early. I owe a lot of that to my mum. She was a Conservative councillor in Brent for 16 years.
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
I don't get paid a salary, but I do like to go by private plane because it saves a lot of time and is very efficient.
The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.