On 17 jul 2008, at 23.33, IETF Chair wrote:
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).
so while I sympathize with the need for this, and won't argue against it. I do want to point out that it means that overseas travelers will be 'stuck' for another day (depending on where in the world we are, you can normally make an afternoon overseas flight, but not if we have an afternoon slot). So in order for you to get enough data - I would strongly urge you to also have an afternoon slot in a non-north american meeting location and only afterwards analyze the data.
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