12/06/2001
Jon Crowcroft, IAB
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Who IAB/IESG/IETF speak for?
•IETF is representative of individual engineers
•IESG provide technical leadership
•IAB provide strategic guidance
•Volunteer organisations – M.O. is best expressed as “Rough Consensus and Working Code”
–Very unlike ITU/ETSI (with whom we have liason agreements) which are government or treaty orgs – we are answerable to our membership, which is anyone and everyone.
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Next, state the action step.  Make your action step specific, clear and brief.  Be sure you can visualize your audience taking the action.  If you can’t, they can’t either.  Be confident when you state the action step, and you will be more likely to motivate the audience to action.