This. So much this. The downsides to volunteering are far clearer and easier to articulate than any potential upsides. Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx > On 25 Mar 2025, at 23:32, Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Organisations seem to rely more and more on volunteer activity to provide professional services to an increasing degree of perfection in an increasingly complex rules based environment in which the volunteer is subjected to increasing social media fuelled scrutiny. > > The difficulty the IETF faces is simply reflecting the difficulty that many other organisations face.