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From: "Melinda Shore" <melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
To: <dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net>
Cc: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Requirement to go to meetings
On 10/22/11 10:26 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists?
In all honesty I'd say that the largest source of this problem is
working group chairs, both for using meetings as deadline anchors
and for doing a really crappy job managing remote participation
during meetings (and thereby increasing the need to be there in
person). A few do an outstanding job, a few don't even try, and
most are somewhere in the middle. It may be worth doing a wg chairs
training session on this topic during an upcoming meeting.
Yup, and not just managing remote participation. The mailing list
work of the IETF consists, for many WGs, of
three short bursts of activity each year, interspersed with periods of
hibernation (or aestivation).
Perhaps we should schedule six meetings each year; no need to attend
them, it would just create six bursts of activity each year so we would
get twice as much done, or get the same amount done in half the time.
When W S Gilbert's song, "I've got a little list, they'd none of them
be missed" is updated in modern performances, I would like to add
to the list WG chairs who go to sleep between meetings:-)
Tom Petch
Melinda
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