I do not think you can generalize.
The two most memorable (to me) tech
plenaries were:
-A presentation by someone from Google
about the (not yet released) Android (clearly falls into the "marketing"
bucket)
-A (prophetic?) presentation by Fred
Baker about the potential for the government to intercept Internet content
(clearly falls into the "talking to ourselves" bucket)
Unfortunately, getting a good plenary
speaker/speech is not "cookbook".
Janet
"ietf" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> wrote
on 03/06/2014 10:13:36 AM:
> From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Date: 03/06/2014 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: A suggestion for future Technical
Plenaries
> Sent by: "ietf" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:55:57AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > Get speakers we know, and avoid speakers with management job
titles.
>
> Is there a danger in that case of the technical plenary turning into
> an echo chamber, where we only talk to ourselves? (That's not
a
> rhetorical question; I'm asking for real.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>