My response is likely redundant with that of other RAI folks, but I have a feeling that RAI likely has the highest requirement for additional meeting slots. And, for us RAI folks, The Friday sessions have never been considered the least important. Indeed, when both SIP and SIPPING required 2 sessions each, we were alternating the Friday session for those groups. In my mind, these additional Friday sessions are really a must for RAI, as in the past, we've held adhoc meetings for key topics on these afternoons and many of us are already in the habit of extending our stays to include the Friday nite to account for these meetings. And, for many folks that have difficulty in getting travel approval for interim meetings (this issue is getting to be more and more common in my experience), the additional sessions during IETF week could be really helpful. Regards, Mary Barnes -----Original Message----- From: ietf-announce-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-announce-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of IETF Chair Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:33 PM To: IETF Announcement list Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx; iesg@xxxxxxxx Subject: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73 The IESG is considering an experiment for IETF 73 in Minneapolis, and we would like community comments before we proceed. Face-to-face meeting time is very precious, especially with about 120 IETF WGs competing for meeting slots. Several WGs are not able to get as much meeting time as they need to progress their work. As an experiment, we are considering adding two Friday afternoon one-hour meeting slots. The proposed Friday schedule would be: 0900-1130 Morning Session I 1130-1300 Break 1300-1400 Afternoon Session I 1415-1515 Afternoon Session II Please share your thoughts about this proposed experiment. The proposed experiment will be discussed on the IETF Didcussion mail list (ietf@xxxxxxxx). _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf