Re: [bmwg] [IAB] BMWG Virtual Interim Meeting

[John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com>]

--On Friday, October 16, 2009 15:00 -0500 "James M. Polk"
<jmpolk at cisco.com> wrote:

> fair - I was off 4 days, and sit corrected.
> 
> however, Oct 30th is 10 days from the IETF meeting, which is
> awfully close, don't you think?

FWIW, we used to have a firm rule against interim meetings close
to IETF ones.   I have no idea if it got lost in history,
repealed, or is still taken seriously.  If the WG is meeting at
IETF, it leaves insufficient time for minutes and new drafts to
be available before the IETF meeting.  If it is used instead of
a meeting at IETF... well, we used to think that was a bad idea
because it prevented the cross-review and cross-fertilization
that are our justification for big, everyone-meets-in-the-same
place, IETF meetings.

Of course, there are always the possibility of exceptional
cases, which is why we pay the IESG the big bucks.

     john