At 11:58 AM -0800 11/15/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
I may have misunderstood the discussion to this point, but I thought
what was being discussed was the idea that IFF you were planning to
give a powerpoint presentation (and, not coincidentally, give a
verbal presentation that makes no sense without slides for context),
you have to hand over the slides first, so that remote participants
had a prayer of actually participating remotely.
Why are we discussing this as a requirement, not a suggestion? I am
one of the people who was listening from afar last week, and the one
presentation where the person didn't get his slides out in time was
frustrating, but I certainly got some of the technical content
without the visual context. I would have gotten more if I could see
his slides, but that is not a good enough reason to tell him "no, you
cannot speak without your slides on the web site, it's against the
IETF rules", nor "you can speak but you can't use the slideware you
have right there, because a few people listening remotely would be
disadvantaged".
This really sounds like the "MUST vs. SHOULD" debates when people
don't read RFC 2119. Often, what they really want is "MAY (and it is
a very good idea)" but they feel like making it MORE IMPORTANT anyway.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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