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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:05:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
To: ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: How to organize our work
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One main idea of Keith's proposal, was, even if it was not spelled
out explicitly in his proposal, that we should have logically
a separate computer conference for each issue, and the people
most interested in this particular issue would join that conference
and develop a proposal (or, if they cannot agree, a list of
alternatives with arguments) before the issue is taken to the
whole list.

This way of structuring discussions was actually invented by
Murray Turoff and the EIES group some fifteen years ago in the
EIES conference system, and was also a major function in the
Participate system which was very successfull on the market
ten years ago.

:-) We in the Internet however are just a few years behind in the
development of good ways of structuring complex discussions. :-)

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme