RE: [IAB] BMWG Virtual Interim Meeting

["Dan Wing" <dwing at cisco.com>]

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> [mailto:wgchairs-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:11 PM
> To: James M. Polk
> Cc: Working Group Chairs; IESG Secretary; bmwg at ietf.org; Dave Thaler
> Subject: Re: [IAB] BMWG Virtual Interim Meeting
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:00:58PM -0500, James M. Polk wrote:
> > however, Oct 30th is 10 days from the IETF meeting, which 
> is awfully  
> > close, don't you think?
> 
> FWIW, my personal opinion is that if WGs could complete most of what
> they actually have to do in interims, prior to the Big Giant Meeting,
> we might have some hope of beating back the steady expansion of the
> IETF meetings into two weeks.  Especially in case the meetings are
> held virtually, in which case the Internet weenies have to eat their
> own Internet-virtual-environment dog food.  Which can't possibly be a
> bad thing, can it?

+1.

And IETF could spend its time staying relevant this way -- do the
work between meetings, and spend the meetings to figure out new
work that is done between meetings.

If we really want to do work during the meetings we need 4-5 
meetings a year instead of 3.  The meetings create deadlines, as is 
obvious by the onslaught we are about to enjoy with Monday's upcoming -00
cutoff.

-d


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