On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Scott Brim wrote:
Some people find it difficult to participate at a rapid pace on
mailing lists, and will strongly prefer f2f. They might also find it
difficult to participate f2f but they can control the pace more.
I've been a fairly passive meeting participant in IETF as of a few years,
only been to one meeting. I don't know where work is being done at the
meetings, but for some WGs with a lot of work, the official meetings are
not that helpful. No real discussion can be had because of time
constraints, and who can iron out a controvesial topic in a couple of
hours anyway, much less 5 or 10 topics? I guess a lot of work is being
done over lunch and dinner?
I feel this is a matter of culture and how people are used to work. I
started using FIDONET in the 80ties, for me eletronic communication and
managing lots of email is not a problem. I see other people claiming
seldom reading the mailinglist discussions but instead only read drafts.
Drafts for me is a good way to "sum up" a discussion, but discussing via
writing drafts isn't really a discussion. I'd rather write a "summary" to
the list, see if people are interested and if things make sense on a high
level, and THEN perhaps a draft can be written. Spending time to write a
proper draft (which takes a lot of time if it's your first time) and just
having it rejected as a bad idea outright is a waste of time for
everybody.
The WGs I participate in seem fine to work in without going to meetings
though. I'm happy for that.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike(_at_)swm(_dot_)pp(_dot_)se
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