As you know, I'm personally a pretty strong believer in
the "oh, you haven't read the documents, go to the back of the
room and be quiet" school of WG meeting leadership. I've gotten
a lot of pushback for that, and been called several bad names,
but it has never come from the IESG.
I'll venture to suggest that anyone who thinks about both the scarcity of
meeting time and the aggregate cost of such meeting -- include the cost of the
time of the participants -- will agree with you that the meeting needs to
focus on deliverables, rather than "education".
There are, of course, exceptions, but they are just that, exceptional.
PowerPoint itself is another issue. I, personally, hate it for IETF WG-
like meetings, not because of all of the cliche reasons, but because it
discourages real interaction.
People can and do use powerpoint slides in many ways. Some folks will rework
text in real-time, based on interaction with the participants. Some folks
just talk their slides rather than actually engaging with the participants.
A thing to keep in mind is that slides and the jabber activity can be
incredibly helpful to folks for whom English not their native language.
I think that, in fact, the issue is not powerpoint-vs-no-powerpoint. I think
it is exactly and only the concern you raise: meetings need to be for working
group interaction. If that is the clear goal and if the meeting is run with
that goal enforced, then none of the trappings matter.
d/
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