I greatly prefer the current meeting schedule to one that packs meetings in to a shorter time period on Friday. As another poster mentioned, I too am tired by Friday, and I'm unlikely to stay focused through 5 straight hours of meetings, especially if I'm expected to keep going two hours past when I ate lunch on the previous four days. If we don't want to hold meetings on Friday afternoons due to conflicts, I'd much rather see us eliminate one of the plenaries and hold meetings during that time slot. Margaret On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: > Howdy, > First I'd like to thank the organizers for IETF-81 for another well-run meeting. The logistics and coordination for such an event must be daunting, and I know we (the attendees) tend to focus on the negatives rather than the positives... but we really are thankful for all the time and effort put into it. Thank you! > > I would also like to propose a small change for future meetings. On Friday, instead of having a 2.5 hour WG meeting, followed by a 1.5 hour lunch break, followed by 2 hours of WG meetings... perhaps we could just have 4.5 hours of WG meetings straight and also start a bit earlier? > > Something like this: > 8:30-11:00 Session I > 11:15-12:15 Session II > 12:30-13:30 Session III > End > > That way the people who need to get to an airport get more time, or fewer of them have to miss WG meetings, etc. And it would help reduce costs for attendees if they can avoid staying Friday night at the hotel. And lunch at 13:30 doesn't seem unreasonable (to me). > > I apologize if this has been brought up before. I tried to find it from an old email thread for the "Experiment" at IETF-73 which added the Friday afternoon sessions, but did not see this proposal being suggested. > > -hadriel > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf