On 30/12/2020 08:08, Stewart Bryant wrote:
2/ Agree with Bob that online meetings make it a lot more difficult to participate when the time doesn't agree with the local time. IETF 109 was 9pm-3am for me too, I chose to skip due to day job obligations.
This is a consistent message from US participants, but one that I do understand.
Given that attending F2F would require a week of OOO, ie with IETF getting priority and day job often postponed, why does the fact that it is virtual mean that IETF becomes secondary?
Because it messes up eating, sleeping, socialising and everything else.
At an IETF, I have travelled across the oceans, bitten the bullet of
changing time zones and can live a normal life for a week or so. For a
virtual, I am not prepared to jettison everything else and try to adapt
to this all-consuming schedule which fits with nothing else.
Tom Petch
Stewart
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