--On Monday, July 11, 2016 16:38 +0100 Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am more concerned that we have wasted five hours of meeting > time that could have been used to reduce meeting conflicts, > and thus enable better cross area review. FWIW, the justification for a half-day Friday session was that it was necessary to schedule so much work that there was simply no way to do it in four days. There have been comments in this thread (and the many prior versions of it) about the desirability of getting home in Friday (which, in turn, may interact with decisions about bringing families to meetings as well as with both participant and IETF costs). If we really have potential surplus meeting hours, is it time to reconsider the Friday decision, trying to use possible meeting slots (including time recovered by reducing the number of plenaries) efficiently enough to return to a four-day schedule? john