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Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 11:26:18

On Oct 30, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Glen Zorn wrote:

The second biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in
meetings is to ban Internet use in meetings except for the purpose of
remote participation.

Harder to do & not clearly an improvement: it clear out meeting rooms a bit,
but on the other hand people who (for example) just read email in meetings
aren't really harming productivity too much.

They do by skewing statistics. ADs gauge WG position by the feel of the room. 
100 people in the room make it look like there's a lot of interest, when it 
fact only the document authors and one of the WG chairs have read the drafts. 
Same for hums. Who knows what drives someone staring at a laptop to hum one way 
or another?

As an example, the IPsecME meeting in Maastricht had over 100 people in the 
room. Most never looked up from their laptop screens.

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