Re: Formal IESG Teleconference WebEx and Dial-in Information

We are an international organisation. And that is why the time is listed in UTC.

The message does list another time as well, in fact does so first. It also 
lists a local phone number. Another IETF meeting (IAB) uses a template that I 
have found very useful:

> IAB Business Meeting
> Wed 2014-09-10
>
> 0700-0830 PDT
> 1000-1130 EDT
> 1400-1530 UTC
> 1600-1730 Germany, Switzerland
> 1700-1830 Finland
> 2200-2330 China
That is, it lists a few likely time zones for people for convenience. In this 
case the known timezones of people who are at least going to be on the call. 
I’m going to ask the secretariat to do something similar for the IESG calls, 
because it helps me and other participants to do their TZ math. I know I can 
always click on a link to find out, do the math, or use the Internet to find 
out local phone numbers. But sadly there are a few situations where I might be 
on a call without Internet connectivity.

By the way, notice when I said *for convenience*. We are an international 
organisation but please do not ask us to remove information that is convenient 
for many participants just out of principle. And I think we have bigger 
problems in the Internet to solve than the announcement format for IESG calls 
:-) Unless, of course, we made all items local to Finland, which I think would 
be a significant Internet improvement :-)

And now, I am going to attempt move the discussion to a direction that I think 
would be better use of our time. I saw a few participants on the previous call. 
Anyone on this list who joined? Did you find it useful? Or if you did not join, 
do you find it useful that you can, if you want to follow a particular topic? 
This time we had a record quick call, by the way, so there wasn’t that much 
actual discussion. But the different calls can be different in this respect. 

Jari

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