The IESG has approved the following document: - 'High level guidance for the meeting policy of the IETF' (draft-ietf-mtgvenue-meeting-policy-07.txt) as Best Current Practice This document is the product of the Meeting Venue Working Group. The IESG contact person is Alissa Cooper. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mtgvenue-meeting-policy/ Technical Summary The IETF currently strives to have a 1-1-1-* meeting policy, the goal of which is where to distribute meeting locations equally between North America, Europe, and Asia. This meeting rotation is aimed at distributing the travel pain for IETF participants who physically attend meetings and the time zone pain for those who participate remotely. This policy has neither been defined precisely nor documented in an IETF consensus document. This document is meant to serve as a consensus-backed statement of this policy published as a BCP. Working Group Summary There was relatively little discussion on this draft. It progressed slowly but without much debate or heated discussion. There were only minor changes to the draft. These were based on working group discussion and consensus. The most noteworthy items hashed out in the working group were: 1) Consensus to leave the terms North America, Europe, and Asia vague and subject to interpretation 2) Consensus that maximizing in person attendance at meetings was not a goal of the policy 3) Consensus to use community consent as the bar for pursuing an exploratory meeting Document Quality The document went through a few rounds of light review, both before being adopted as a working group document as well as once adopted. All comments resulting from these reviews were addressed. Personnel Charles Eckel is the shepherd. Alissa Cooper is the responsible AD.
