On 7/23/19 10:21 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
I think the issue is the usual stuff we all know:
- People don’t post things on lists that they are willing to say in person
- Sometimes e-mail isn’t the best way to have a discussion
- in-person builds a relationship and trust in ways that other technologies
just can’t
- I have had things make it to RFC without a need to attend a meeting and
the conversations happened on-list or off-list
- Not all WGs are equal, some do this better than others, it’s not the chairs
but often the participants that matter the most in this success IMO
But there's also another set of issues, e.g.:
- Many of us have had the experience of traveling halfway across the
world in order to attend WG meetings which were (for various reasons,
some predictable) mostly a waste (not only of CO2 but also money, time,
energy, etc.)
- Even though meeting in person can often be more effective than email
or remote conferencing, we don't structure our in-person meetings to
make the best use of the opportunities afforded by the investment of
those precious quantities.
Keith
