Randy RIPE NCC != the RIPE Community but you know that right - because you are a travelled civilised American. And one person making the decisions is not a management structure unless you can feed data into it and review its outcomes. The RIPE meetings are for the community to meet - they are organised by the NCC as part of its service remit but the community drives the process. Stephen's point is valid as a general point ie meeting venue and date choices as recent examples, there is no way that I am aware of to send formal feedback into the system for meeting management other than through WG chairs. f At 7:21 am -0700 8/8/02, Randy Bush wrote:
sadly, we funny monkeys have not figured out how to successfully run an organization the size of the ripe ncc as an anarchic commune. hence we have hiyou don'terarchic management structures. i don't think i would be very comfortable betting my network on having the ncc conducting "management research" on how to run.
randy