In article <54F0A203.1020209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >The secretariat has sometimes put out nuts. A few times they put out tuna sandwiches, and as I recall those tended to disappear long before the cookies did. On the assumption that remote participants can make their own sandwiches, do we have any estimate of what benefits remote participants bring to our live WG sessions? I've certainly been to plenty of sessions where the chair or document author was on the phone or typing fast into jabber, and the session would have been vastly less useful if he or she weren't there. R's, John