RE: [IAB] BMWG Virtual Interim Meeting

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

> Dan, Andrew,
> 
> While I don't agree with the above, partially because I think
> the IETF still benefits tremendously from the informal
> intra-area and inter-area drop-ins, cross-calibration, and
> cross-fertilization that come with meetings -- things that an
> isolated WG-specific interim will never have-- if we shifted to
> doing most of the work in "interims", it might be easy to cut
> the big "everyone gets together in the same place" meetings to
> twice a year or maybe even three in two years. 

I don't agree there is a cause and effect that if WG's get
work done between meetings it would reduce the big in-person
meetings.  Is there experience you can share where this 
occurred?

-d

> That would save
> a lot of money and travel wear-and-tear for participants and
> their organizations.  What it would do to the budget, at least
> absent astronomical registration fees, is another matter, but I
> hope we don't need to have "more attendance at more meetings"
> drive our decision-making.