SIGWAIS/SIGNIDR III
National Library of Medicine (12 November 1993)

MEETING BUSINESS (12:00-12:10)

We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and running code.

         Dave Clark (IETF, Columbus[?], 1992)

We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and informative meetings.

         Paraphrase (SIGNIDR III, LHC, 1993)

Items:

• Meeting content: right mix of general, technical
• Name change: Special Interest Group for Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval (SIGNIDR)
  • More accurate reflection of focus
  • No appearance of affiliation with commercial firm WAIS, Inc.
  • Other better names/acronyms?
  • Phase in over 9 more months