Re: a simple solution to the room crowding problem...

[Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>]

It's worth noting that several hundred people attended the
newcomers' briefing on the Sunday before the IETF. What I realised,
sitting in that meeting, is that the allocated hour or so is
simply not long enough to cover everything that newcomers need
to know. And it is a bit late on Sunday to tell them to read
600 drafts by Monday morning.

   Brian

John Border wrote:
> 
>     Closing meetings might have other implications re Thursday's poisson
> discussion...
> 
>     Rather than do anything drastic, a preliminary step would be to try to
> better educate meeting attendees on what is expected of them before attending a
> meeting.  At the Orlando meeting, several additional people attended from my
> company and, when asked what to expect, I explained to them that to get
> anything out of the meetings they planned to attend, they need to read the
> drafts pertaining to the meeting or at least spend some time to figure out
> (ahead of time) what the working group is all about.  Perhaps an attachment can
> be automatically tagged onto the reservation confirmation message sent to all
> attendees...
> 
> John Border
> Hughes Network Systems