Tao of the IETF

[Dave Nagle <bassoon@yogi.ece.cmu.edu>]

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		Title		: The Tao of IETF
		Author(s)	: S. Harris
		Filename	: draft-ietf-uswg-tao-00.txt
		Pages		: 
		Date		: 06-Jul-00
		
     In recent years, the attendance at Internet Engineering Task Force
     (IETF) face-to-face meetings has grown phenomenally. Many of the
     attendees are new to the IETF at each meeting, and many of those go on
     to become regular attendees. When the meetings were smaller, it wasn't
     very difficult for a newcomer to get into the swing of things. Today,
     however, a newcomer meets many more new people, some previously known
     only as the authors of documents or thought-provoking e-mail messages.
     
     Many IETF participants don't go to the face-to-face meetings. Instead,
     they are active on the mailing list of the IETF Working Groups. The
     methods and mechanisms of Working Groups are often difficult for
     newcomers to comprehend.
     
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