Re: to pitch or not to pitch, IETF attendance costs

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/15/19 5:34 PM, Nico Williams wrote:

3) reduce presentations from costly in-person meetings

+1 (Except, again, for BoFs, because they are very much about marketing
    new work, and they can't be expected to have a virtual interim.

I was wondering if similar virtual interim meetings, except associated with an area instead of a WG, could replace BOFs entirely.

If a virtual interim meeting is not adequate to "market new work", (I assume you mean it's not sufficiently visible for such a purpose), maybe we should figure out how to make interim meetings more visible.   I'm starting to get the impression that "interim" meetings are the future of IETF.

Keith

p.s. I went looking on the ietf web site for a calendar of online interim meetings and noticed that while it does exist, it's buried very deeply in the site.   Maybe it should be on the home page, or on a special home page for IETF attendees.   And maybe it should be presented like a calendar rather than (or in addition to) as a list.