On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:49:46AM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > > Maybe there's an intermediate between email and full f2f time? > Something like having well known jabber chats to simulate the > quickness of f2f conversation without having to be there? There > is some amount of precedence for this with the IESG's telechats. > They could be structured like regular wg meetings with moderation, > etc for well known ones, and the same room could be reused for > ad hoc/sidebar discussions when not in use. Well, if we make remote participation too good, we may end up with rather empty meeting rooms and a bankrupt IETF ;) What we should do, given the rush of work that happens pre-ID cutoff, is maybe look at such technology for interim meetings, and have the IETF support some infrastructure to help interim meetings run more effectively, maybe even without a physical meeting venue. Some WGs might then run more interim virtual meetings and help distribute the workload over the year more smoothly. -- Tim/::1 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf