On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just observing that the other name for "virtual interim" is
"teleconference".
We've had pushback in the past about depending on teleconferences for
doing business - in particular people have cited the tendency of other
standards orgs to use regular teleconferences for making decisions and
thereby effectively shutting out everyone who can't be on the calls from
participating; we've cited our extensive use of email as a feature of
our process.
I do think that teleconferences have their place, as do face-to-face
interims.
Encouraging groups to meet at interims *instead* of IETF week? I am very
hesitant to do that.
Virtual interim meetings are fine but IMO they are not better than
old-fashioned reviews posted to a WG mailing list and debated
on the mailing list.
I attend lots of VI meetings.
I have not yet attended one during my normal business hours.
I have not yet seen an "Asia-friendly" VI schedule. Perhaps the schedule
should shift by 8 or 12 hours every time and let some NA and EU participants
call in at 3am.
Almost always, the minutes from the VI either gloss over or misrepresent
my comments made during the meeting. If I sent them in email to
the WG this could not happen.
Whatever the secret sauce of the IETF is (and no matter how tasty it is
after all these years), the IETF meetings are part of it.
For somebody that just needs to follow just 1 or 2 WGs, because they are so busy in
their day job with non-SDO activities, these meetings are not so important.
The IETF WG slots only provide time for status and maybe 1 or 2 technical
issues per meeting, so the IETF WG meeting slot is never going to
be the same as a 2 day WG interim.
Andy
On 08/18/2015 10:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I don't think we should encourage or discourage interims. I think we should
> just make it clear that they are part of a WG's toolkit to use as appropriate.
>
> For a new topic with a lot of issues to discuss, a two-day f2f interim can
> make as much progress as a year of "normal" IETF discussion. For an ongoing
> topic, a two-hour virtual interim can be enormously useful, but cuts out
> people in some time zones.
>
> I agree that nobody should fly to an IETF week for a two-hour meeting.
> In my experience I fly there for about 50 hours of meetings; that's the
> point.
>
> Brian
>