On 07/03/2014 04:13, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > 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.) Yes, there is that risk, and "someone we know" doesn't have to be an IETF regular, although when there's something provocative like CODEL, why not take a regular? Or take something a bit out of our orbit like Coded TCP? On 07/03/2014 04:54, Jari Arkko wrote: > no risk no gain. Agreed, but I'd rather risk it being too technical and hard to understand. (Personally I found the DHT talk a few years ago hard too understand, but an absolutely appropriate topic.) On 07/03/2014 04:58, Thomas Narten wrote: > One of the the surest ways to vet speakers is talk to people you know > and trust who have heard (first hand) talks given by the proposed > speaker. Getting recommendations 2nd and 3rd hand are intrinsically > more risky. Very true. Brian