Re: fate of IRI working group in IETF

On 2013/01/04 15:17, SM wrote:
> Hi Jiankang,
> At 18:35 03-01-2013, Jiankang YAO wrote:
>> it is an important work, but why do few people paritcipate in this WG?
>>
>> is it due to that the importance of this work is not recognized by
>> every involved person?
>
> It is difficult to find people with the relevant expertise. The people
> can be busy. Saying that the work is important does not change that.

Yes. And because it's important for everybody, everybody can think that 
somebody else will do it, so they don't have to do it. Also, it's 
important to everybody, but except for boundary cases (error processing, 
i18n, bidi) it "just works" and isn't a "major pain point".

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Friday, 4 January 2013 07:45:39 UTC