[governance] Re: organizational orientation

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

> Other IETF material, such as Thomas Narten's excellent tutorial for
> IETF beginners, which are performed at the beginning of every IETF
> meeting <http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/06nov/slides/newwork-0.pdf >,
> also say quite the opposite of the nice legend you described. For
> instance, the opinions of known people count *much* more.

Even then, you wont find people blindly swallowing an idea just because its
from Randy, or Dave Crocker, or ... 

What you're describing is natural in any forum, not just IETF. Trust /
reputation in a peer group, for one .. and a breadth of experience. Both
these count.

	srs

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