On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 06:26:49PM -0800, The IESG wrote: > The IESG is seriously considering a WG and BOF scheduling experiment. The > goal of the experiment is to provide WG agenda sooner and also provide > more time to craft BOF proposals. I think the goals are good. > The proposed experiment includes three parts. First, schedule all BOFs > for Monday afternoon. Second, schedule WGs before we know which BOFs will > be held. Finally, provide an additional four weeks to deliver BOF > proposal to ADs. I think that part 1 is potentially a problem, because of the same conflict issues others have identified. Scheduling all the BOFs at the beginning of the week actually does not address the goals as stated. It might address an additional goal, which is that one can take advantage of the rest of the week to deal with the BOF results. But that advantage might not be enough to offset the disadvantages of a lot of conflicts. Also, whether there is such an advantage could be measured later, in a different experiment. Therefore, I support the idea of undertaking this experiment without the part where all the BOFs are scheduled for Monday afternoon. Instead, spread the BOFs out as now. I realise that this might increase the chances that a BOF will cause scheduling conflicts for ADs. It would also be nice if we had success criteria for the experiment, so we have some way of deciding what to do with the results of the experiment. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf