On 06/02/2018 04:40, Pete Resnick wrote:
> Hi Stewart,
>
> Thanks for the review. Just on the things that Eliot hasn't already
> covered
>
> On 5 Feb 2018, at 5:04, Stewart Bryant wrote:
...>> Where we meet?
>> We meet in different locations globally, in order to spread the
>> difficulty and cost of travel among active participants,
>> balancing
>> travel time and expense across the regions in which IETF
>> participants are based.
>>
>> SB> Given the support and encouragement of remote participants, there
>> ought to
>> be a note about sharing unreasonable time zone difference pain across
>> the
>> spectrum of remote participants.
>
> I don't believe we currently do take that into account in location
> selection (perhaps others can chime in), so this would be a new
> requirement. We could bring this back to the WG to try and get consensus
> around it, but that doesn't excite me. :-) I'll leave it to my fearless
> AD to advise.
Having participated in the IETF while living in UTC+1, UTC, UTC-6
and UTC+12 at various times, all with or with daylight savings, I feel almost
uniquely qualified to comment on this.
Firstly, add jet lag for the in-person participants to the mix. Then
try to work out the optimisation function across all participants,
to simultaneously minimise jet lag effects and unsocial hours.
I think it's impossible. At the very least, it's a rat hole. So I
highly recommend leaving this issue aside.
Brian