-----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk> Date: 23 December 2002 19:25 Subject: Re: DNSEXT WGLC Summary: AXFR clarify >On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> On Thursday 19 December 2002, at 10 h 3, >> Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com> wrote: >> >> > I like that we have individuals at the ietf meetings rather than company >> > representatives, > >IETF participation allegedly does not require meeting attendance, >although keeping up without attending is increasingly hard. > <snip> Now there's a contentious statement. I see quite the opposite that while meetings used to be where it happened, now, with near universal and continuous e-mail (and http, ftp etc), most work gets done when not at a meeting. Or by going to a meeting, opening up the (company?) laptop and spending most of the time busy typing away, regardless of what session you are sitting in. Don't get me wrong; face-to-face meetings are potentially the fastest way to move our work forward but this model seems to have been abandoned in favour of communing with a laptop (That much of many of the sessions at meetings consists of a recital of the status of IDs with little or no interaction between participants could be a factor in this). So why leave the company office? You are probably most productive sitting there in comfort. Tom Petch nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com