On Oct 30, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: >> The second biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in >> meetings is to ban Internet use in meetings except for the purpose of >> remote participation. > > Harder to do & not clearly an improvement: it clear out meeting rooms a bit, > but on the other hand people who (for example) just read email in meetings > aren't really harming productivity too much. They do by skewing statistics. ADs gauge WG position by the feel of the room. 100 people in the room make it look like there's a lot of interest, when it fact only the document authors and one of the WG chairs have read the drafts. Same for hums. Who knows what drives someone staring at a laptop to hum one way or another? As an example, the IPsecME meeting in Maastricht had over 100 people in the room. Most never looked up from their laptop screens. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf