On 8/6/10 9:48 AM, David Conrad wrote: > Hi, > > On Aug 6, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Ed Juskevicius wrote: >> IEEE802 uses formal voting (during its meetings) to determine issues and to accept proposals (or motions) to add or delete text from documents that are being developed. >> ... >> The IETF WG process is very different from IEEE802, and that (for me) is reason enough to suggest that a system built for the IEEE802 may not be appropriate for IETF. There are lots of other reasons too ... > > OK, but the fact that our processes are different doesn't necessarily mean moving to online tools is a bad idea, right? > > Off the top of my head, I can see a couple of positives: > - Online tools would allow folks who are participating remotely to indicate 'presence' at a working group meeting. Depending on the popularity of your working group and the extent to which the meeting itself is timeshifted from the vantage point of the bulk of the remote participants, as much as 10% of of the partficipants might be remote, generally less, almost never more. > - Simplify the administrative burden of collecting and keeping the blue sheets > - Allow for easier analysis of working group attendance > > And negatives: > - Allow for easier analysis of working group attendance > - Requires somebody to develop/maintain the tools > - Requires everyone have some device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc) that allows them to access the online tools (how does IEEE get around this?) > - Might not meet the requirements (e.g., legal) the blue sheet currently fill we have the rfid experiment as one example of an attendance intrumentation exercise. I'm generally in favor of experimenting I think it tells us as much about our current process as it does any change we might be contemplating... > I'm on the fence... > > Regards, > -drc > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf