Thanks for this response RS. I'd like to add that there are other things we do to participate. For example we are all shepherds on proposals. We work with authors. We work with the community. A lot of this doesn't necessarily manifest itself in ppml posts. Some of us attend other meetings and get input from other communities. We volunteer our time to work in the ARIN booth at different functions to talk to the community and spread the word about IPv6. We run lunch topic tables at the meetings to get input and start discussions on specific questions we have for the community. To RS's point I limit my posts to this list and actually my comments at the microphones in the meetings because I want to know what members of the community think. A lot of my microphone comments and ppml posts are questions to try to get as much input as I can. I am an avid reader of ppml and arin-discuss. If you are judging us by number of posts then I certainly lose. <div>
<br></div><div>----Cathy<br><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Robert E. Seastrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ppml@rs.seastrom.com">ppml@rs.seastrom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us">bill@herrin.us</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:19 PM, <a href="mailto:cja@daydream.com">cja@daydream.com</a> <<a href="mailto:packetgrrl@gmail.com">packetgrrl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> We participate on ppml.<br>
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> Half of you do not. That half's participation is limited to showing up<br>
> for the meetings and whatever back-room dealings they have out of the<br>
> public eye.<br>
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</div>Actually, Bill... I am not alone among AC members in that I<br>
intentionally limit my participation on PPML because I am more<br>
interested in gauging community sentiment than in shaping it.<br>
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I'm sorry that having good listeners in your midst frightens you.<br>
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Back to your regularly scheduled policy debate.<br>
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-r<br>
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