On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Keith Moore wrote:
Whenever I see a presentation about the editorial progress of some draft, I
find myself wondering - does _anybody_ here need to be watching this? If
someone has typed in this summary in PPT, couldn't it as easily be posted to
the WG mailing list, or placed in the appendix of the I-D?
Face to face time seems better used for interaction.
From the top of my head, there are at least three kinds of
presentations I see frequently at the IETFs:
a) about 5 slides (or less) of background for the work, some major
points, and maybe what has changed, on the last slide soliciting for
input on certain specific topics,
b) presentations where the document editor goes through all the open
issues in the document (typically sent to the list beforehand, but no
comments there), trying to use face-to-face time for discussion and
gaining consensus on these items
c) longer presentations which often result in focus getting lost.
Do you see other kinds? Do you feel (at least) a) and b) are good use
of our time?
In any case, what I've seen in a dozen or two IETF presentations I
made during the last year or so that people don't usually jump up and
start discussing, unless you have a contentious topic or phrase the
questions really well (in a contentiuous manner)? Or maybe it's just
my bad presentations..
Maybe the audience is also not what it once used to be.. :)
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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