Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

[Cyrus Daboo <cyrus at daboo.name>]

Hi,

--On July 18, 2008 7:20:37 AM -0700 Eric Rescorla 
<ekr at networkresonance.com> wrote:

> 2. People's ability to meet tends to expand to fill out the available
> meeting time.

I think this is a key point. Rather than expanding the number of slots why 
don't we look at using the time we have more efficiently. Some questions to 
ask include:

How much work at a meeting could actually have been done on the mailing 
list beforehand?

What work do we do at a meeting that can't be easily done via a mailing 
list?

Do we spend too much time with overviews of drafts that really should have 
been read by all attendees beforehand? Maybe it would be good for the first 
session on Monday to be an "Area Overview" session where an overview of all 
the latest drafts can be "presented" to give people a broader view of what 
is going on? Actually I have often felt that the IESG plenary would be a 
good place for area directors to give status updates/overviews of the work 
going on in their areas.

Are 2 1/2 hour sessions really valuable, or would two shorter sessions be 
better?

--
Cyrus Daboo

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