Re: Make an all-virtual IETF meeting a 24 hour affair

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On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 1:32 AM Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Part of the challenge is that there is effectively nobody (except Brian
> Carpenter!) living in the 8 hours/timezones between China and San Francisco,

eeeeexcuse me.....;)

> so "night" almost always winds up in the pacific.  So, if we could just move
> a couple of extra million people (including a thousand IETFs) to New Zealand...
> Or Google's  Syndey office.

It's a bit late, summer is almost over...

> So we need a variation of the doodle poll, where we simply ask what your time
> zone is.

It's entirely possible to reach a rough consensus on a timeslot for a
single meeting, so everyone will be equally unhappy.
However I'm not sure how this approach would work for multiple working
groups, when a chair of one WG is an active participant/presenter in
another.
We can solve this problem with computers indeed but it does not look easy.

> Maybe we could actually just pull that out of mailing list
> headers.  Hmm.  There is some bias there, but it might be a good bias (post
> more, and you'll get it at a better time?),

There are some security considerations...
;)

-- 
SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry




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