Re: Friday @ IETF61?

[George Michaelson <ggm at apnic.net>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:36:39 +0300 "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca at avaya.com> wrote:

>I do not believe that this is achievable. With the majority of other standards organizations meetings and industry events building their schedules on a week basis, avoiding major conflicts in the participants calendars would become an even more challenging task, close to mission impossible.

I do not believe this is true. 

In fact, if no other body is using weekends, it only increases the chance that
IETF can squeeze into schedules, because it can exploit dead time the other
meetings cannot.

I suspect most attendees do not share this exposure either. But almost ALL
non-US resident attendees have borne this non-financial, social cost since
the inception of a week-long, working-week model.

-George

>Dan
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ietf-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces at ietf.org]On 
>> Behalf Of George Michaelson
>> Sent: 02 September, 2004 1:05 PM
>> To: jari.arkko at piuha.net
>> Cc: Harald Tveit Alvestrand; Tim Chown; ietf at ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: Friday @ IETF61?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I call again for meetings run over the weekend. midweek to midweek.
>> 
>> 1) cheaper hotel rates for attendees. weekends are cheaper.
>> 
>> 2) less congestion in airports for flights. 
>> 
>> 3) for Europe and Asia, attendance in the USA becomes a loss 
>> of two weekends
>>    (one either side) and for the Americans, NO weekend. This 
>> would be fairer
>>    for everyone, and mean we had a cheaper, more productive time.
>> 
>> -George
>> 
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