On 2015-08-18 19:15, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > Historically there has been a pushback on a WG holding an interim > meeting instead of meeting at an IETF main meeting. Yes, cross-WG > communication and all that. > > However, looking at my schedule, I really can't see myself justifying > what will be a two week interruption to fly out to Yokohama for a two > hour meeting and more importantly, I don't think many of the folk who I > would be looking to collaborate with at that meeting will either. > > Now that IETF main meeting time is becoming an increasingly scarce > commodity, perhaps it is time to re-evaluate the old view that interim > meetings should not be a substitute for having a session at a main > meeting and instead start encouraging that for certain types of work. > > Particularly early on in a WG, a two day interim can be a lot more use > than a two hour main meeting event. Planing interims (esp. finding a time and place that folks can get travel approval for) is usually a horrible exercise though...
