On Mar 14 2005, at 14:07 Uhr, Keith Moore wrote:
we used to get a lot more work done when we used our meetings
primarily for discussion rather than scheduling presentations for most
or all of the meeting time.
Yes. WG chairs planning WG meetings, take note.
But then, one difference is that a lot more stuff happens outside the
WG meetings (e.g., on the mailing list) than ten years ago.
People don't convene in one place to do original work but to decide on
the fate of work that has been done elsewhere.
Also, the things being worked on are simply way more complex than ten
years ago.
(The best WG meeting I ever attended was one where Tony Li hammered out
most of the IP-over-firewire details in one session by asking the
attending firewire experts all the right questions in one sitting. I'm
still wowed for life. But you can't do this for something as complex
as VPLS.)
All that would explain a tendency to mainly do "progress reports".
This does not (fully) explain why we don't discuss things as much any
more, however.
Right now, if you need significant discussion in a WG, it seems you
have to schedule an interim.
Gruesse, Carsten
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