Cedric,
as Julie said, we are not scheduling things into Friday before the other
slots are full.
BUT - Yokohama will probably see one meeting that is, by definition, a
conflict with just about EVERY working group: The meeting that will talk
about the IETF procedures for intellectual property rights, including
copyright issues and - most ominously - patent issues.
This was mentioned at the IETF plenary in Minneapolis - a team has been
working to bring this forward to fruition, but does not have all the work
that we want to do before asking you to start hammering it out done yet.
This will likely have the properties that:
- Lots of people will be interested
- No matter what we schedule it against, there will be a conflict
- It is likely to be quite a long and heated debate
At the moment, the least damaging solution seems to be to schedule this
group in the largest room we can find - and in the Friday timeslot.
So this means that people who have IPR issues they want to bring to the
table had better be prepared to stay Friday; most others can leave if they
want to.
What do people think?
Harald
--On fredag, mai 24, 2002 17:13:14 +0200 Cedric Aoun
<cedric.aoun@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I don't know if people have already asked this question, I apologize if
> this was discussed before. Are we going to finish the WGs sessions on
> Thursday in Yokohama, same as in Minneapolis? Most flights to Europe are
> around noon, in case meetings are scheduled on Friday people in Europe
> will need to schedule their flight on Saturday.
>
> Thanks
> Cedric