Hi, When I remote attend meetings in another timezone, I think of it as jet lag without the jet. avri On 16-Feb-20 03:29, Stewart Bryant wrote: > We all suffer from and recover from jet lag in different ways, and the same with adapting to antisocial work shifts, but I find the TZ argument strange. > > If you want to attend the whole meeting, then shifting your day is no worse than what first responders such as the police service do every week here in UK. > > At least with doing a time shift rather than a trip you do not need to worry about the dehydration and stress of a long flight. > > Stewart > >> On 16 Feb 2020, at 07:37, Roni Even (A) <roni.even@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> One issue to consider about having an entirely virtual meeting is what are the implication on participants in different time zone. >> Attending few scattered session may not be a big issue but if one wants to attend many sessions it becomes a problem. >> >> My personal experience when trying to attend a QUIC WG Interim meeting in Japan was very bad. >> >> 1. The meeting time for me was from 2:00AM till 10:00 AM. (9:00-17:00 in Japan) for three days. >> 2. I used the lunch break to try to catch some sleep, due to lack of enough time to sleep >> 3. Starting at 2:00 AM did not provide enough time to have a healthy night sleep before starting my daily attendance. >> 4. The recovery from the "jetlag" was much slower than when attending the meeting in person. >> >> My conclusion was that I will try to avoid as much as I can this mode of participating from remote in a meeting that takes a couple of days in which I have to attend multiple sessions. >> It is not healthy. >> >> >> One other advantage of a f2f meeting is the "official" and non-official off line sessions/meetings that I find very productive while attending the IETF meeting >> >> If a full virtual meeting will happen and use Vancouver time zone than daily meeting from 9-18 will be 19-4AM for me >> >> >> Roni Even >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Alston >>> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:48 AM >>> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx >>> Subject: IETF 107 and Corona Virus? >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am just wondering if there are any thoughts on the status of the IETF 107 >>> meeting in light of the corona virus. >>> >>> Particularly in light of the fact that for safety reasons mobile world congress >>> has been cancelled and we're seeing other events being cancelled in light of >>> this as well. Should it be considered a safe and responsible move to go >>> ahead with this meeting or should we be looking at an entirely virtual >>> meeting in light of the situation? >>> >>> Andrew
