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From: Lloyd Wood <l(_dot_)wood(_at_)eim(_dot_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
Date: 23 December 2002 19:25
Subject: Re: DNSEXT WGLC Summary: AXFR clarify
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Thursday 19 December 2002, at 10 h 3,
Rick Wesson <wessorh(_at_)ar(_dot_)com> wrote:
I like that we have individuals at the ietf meetings rather than
company
representatives,
IETF participation allegedly does not require meeting attendance,
although keeping up without attending is increasingly hard.
<snip>
Now there's a contentious statement. I see quite the opposite that
while meetings used to be where it happened, now, with near universal
and continuous e-mail (and http, ftp etc), most work gets done when
not at a meeting. Or by going to a meeting, opening up the (company?)
laptop and spending most of the time busy typing away, regardless of
what session you are sitting in.
Don't get me wrong; face-to-face meetings are potentially the fastest
way to move our work forward but this model seems to have been
abandoned in favour of communing with a laptop (That much
of many of the sessions at meetings consists of a recital of the
status of IDs with little or no interaction between participants could
be a factor in this).
So why leave the company office? You are probably most productive
sitting there in comfort.
Tom Petch
nwnetworks(_at_)dial(_dot_)pipex(_dot_)com