>> let me see if i can push you just a little bit out of the box. a >> small step. >> >> there are two time slots in the day which work for what i call three >> continent calls, apac, emea/africa, noam/alyc. each day a different >> wg meets in one of those two slots of *their* choice. thus the ietf >> 'meeting' is smeared over three months. > > Keep pushing. > > And this would win us a schedule free of WG meeting clashes, and > avoidance of several hundred drafts being published in 24 hours with > very little hope of reading the ones that interest you before the WG > meeting. > > Many WGs are already embracing more frequent online interims, so > “smearing” the work is already happening. The question is whether > some structure like the above is preferred, or ad-hoc meetings as and > when each WG wants them. an example https://ooni.org/post/2020-internet-measurement-village/#schedule TMA2020, which i am attending as i type, is a more classic format, mixing zoom and slack, and is time skewed somewhat to try to have a timezone footprint which is not too onerous for asia and the americas. but they tried to innovate in the discussions, per-paper slack channels, interactive q&a, etc. maybe the hardest part is what our community refers to as 'the hallway.' i am looking for communities trying to innovate in this space. imiho, this is really important. i can read your paper/draft/... and zoom +q interaction is about as good as the mic line. but hanging out, discussing, gossiping, ... is more important to us funny monkeys the tools seem to support. randy
