> "Teleconferencing", in this context, includes any > communications vehicle that enables participants to meet > without having to travel, and which they all agree to. Could > be telephone, skype with or without video, Marratech, Webex, > Citrix, or anything else as long as they all agree. Sounds to me like it means "any technology which requires the Internet" since email functions quite nicely using non-Internet technologies like UUCP. Why does the IETF have rules which hamper using the Internet to develop Internet-based protocols? And then use that as an excuse to lengthen the face-to-face meetings making it even harder for people who are not IETF fanatics, or funded by their vendor-employer to attend them? The IETF really needs to sit up and take notice of how other development projects leverage the Internet, such as the many open-source software projects. I'm not saying that all WGs should be forced to start using blogs or IM chat sessions or whatever. Rather, I think the IETF should formally get rid of that teleconference rule, and actively encourage WGs to experiment with new ways of working that leverage Internet technologies, and which reduce the amount of time needed in face-to-face meetings. That would be worthy of the title "experiment". --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf