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Further small corrections on questions in Dusseault

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@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ I stepped back because I was trying to make progress on some things that I thoug
I had young kids. It was getting harder and harder to travel. You can travel with a baby, actually, pretty easily if you're willing to put them in a carrier---babies can be happy in a lot of different places, but a toddler is hard.
I was getting sick of the ten-year time horizon in standards. Everything I worked on, would I have to wait ten or twelve years to show my mom, who's a great supporter of me and my work? See, this is the end result we were working toward.
I was getting sick of the ten-year time horizon in standards. Everything I worked on, would I have to wait ten or twelve years to show my mom, who's a great supporter of me and my work?
Chartering a working group---I was an area director, so I was even farther removed from anything practical or immediate. I was recruiting people to come to the IETF, I was helping them charter working groups, I was choosing chairs, I was helping them write a charter so that then the chairs could choose the editors to write the drafts to meet the charter to then be approved by the working group to then be sent to the IETF to then become RFCs, and then implementers really start thinking about them. You can see why this becomes a ten-year time horizon before it ends up in something mass market.
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It's hard. They're not bad people, and they're often not wrong. With my co-chair, Jon Peterson, also amazing, we've steered a very careful course of allowing lots of things to be said, even the things that we don't think should be allowed to be said and repeated if we had proper moderation in place, because we have to allow an unusual amount of free speech and open participation in the very procedures that might shut that down in the future to legitimize them and make sure we get it right.
*It sounds like an immense challenge to adjust that plane while it's flying.*
*After your hiatus, you got back into standards processes. Can you say about what drew you back?*
*It sounds like an immense challenge to adjust that plane while it's flying. After your hiatus, you got back into standards processes. Can you say about what drew you back?*
My last startup was wrapping up after seven years and a pretty good run. Up until that point, that had been the best job I'd ever had, so I enjoyed those seven years, but they were coming to a close, clearly. Chris Riley reached out to me at just the right time with an irresistible offer.