The announcements for interim meetings are posted here: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/interim.html. Without doing any statistical analysis, the list does not show a shift in the way the IETF is working. Some WGs like to make use of face-to-face or virtual interim meetings. Most do this when they are really digging into a technical specification. Russ On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > Hi - > > Is anyone tracking the number of interim meetings? It seems as > if the number has been growing quite a bit, although that may be > a function of the number of working groups. It might be > interesting to try to get a handle on whether or not there's been > some sort of shift in working methods within the organization. > > Melinda