Given the relatively important meetings that tend to occur on
Saturday and Sunday before the main IETF meeting, the Sunday
tutorials, this would probably not let nearly enough people show
up Monday afternoon (for Tuesday meetings) to be worth it. Now,
if one adopted your suggestion but but the "overview session" on
the previous Friday, that would be a different matter... except
that the people for whom those sessions would be most important
would not come.
john
--On Friday, 18 July, 2008 14:28 -0400 Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com> wrote:
Do we spend too much time with overviews of drafts that
really should have been read by all attendees beforehand?
Maybe it would be good for the first session on Monday to be
an "Area Overview" session where an overview of all the
latest drafts can be "presented" to give people a broader
view of what is going on? Actually I have often felt that the
IESG plenary would be a good place for area directors to give
status updates/overviews of the work going on in their areas.
On reading this I found myself wondering if the "real" IETF WG
meetings - these consisting of actual discussions - should
be Tuesday-Friday. Then Mondays could be used to conduct
"presentation" or "introductory" or "catch up" sessions for
each of the WGs. Attendees who hadn't read the documents and
kept up with the mailing list, along with document authors and
WG chairs, would be expected to attend on Mondays so that they
could catch up on the material. Everyone else could show up
on Tuesday and stay through Friday.
I'm also tempted to suggest that there be an extra charge for
attendance on Mondays (other than for WG chairs and people
presenting material), with the proceeds split between the
secretariat and the people doing presentations.
I honestly think that "catch up" sessions could be quite
valuable in several ways. They could help newcomers to a
particular WG get up to speed, they could facilitate more
cross-area review, they could make the real discussions more
effective by minimizing time spent explaining things to those
who weren't caught up.
Keith
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