Re: Intermediate wg summaries

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I don't think these have to be either-or propositions. A mixture of both, combined with pre-scheduled "breakout" sessions that parallelize some of the lower-interest drafts, might offer value to all participants. Naturally, details depend on the state and size of the working group. SPEECHSC, say, presumably has very different needs and scheduling constraints than, say, SIPPING. (SIPPING had approximately 75 new (00) drafts last year, counting both draft-ietf and draft-personal-sipping.)

An observer of many large WGs would argue that paying $500 to read email or play Solitaire isn't a particularly good investment, either...

On Jan 15, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Eric Burger wrote:

I fully agree with what Henning proposes. However, I am not sure it would be practical. Namely, folks get their employers to pay for going to IETF to get work done. Will that still happen if the meeting becomes, "What's going on in the IETF?" I know when I was in startup mode, the holder of my purse said, "Buy and read the proceedings" when I wanted to go to a technical conference where I was not presenting.

Because of this (or maybe I've got the symptom confused with the cause), WG meetings have become face-to-face work session: "Read all the documents, all the e-mails, and absolutely NO tutorials in your presentation" is the mantra of many work groups.

That said, I have purposely scheduled tutorials in some of my work groups when the technology, OR BUSINESS DRIVER, is obscure but significantly impacts the direction of our work. I made a point of inviting those whom I expected to balk at our work product if they did not know why we want that route. So far, that has been successful.


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