On 2/15/2013 9:46 AM, George, Wes wrote:
[WEG] Perhaps it would be helpful to make an informal recommendation
to WG chairs (via the wiki, for example) that generally they should
carve each request for agenda time roughly in half, with a hard limit
of $speaker_time/2
You are looking for an objective mechanism to handle a subjective issue.
It's a natural desire, but it's doomed to fail.
The requirement is to use meeting time well. Yes, part of 'well' is to
severely limit the occurrence of tutorials. But a "presentation" might
be highly appropriate or highly inappropriate, depending on its actual
content.
For example, one type of presentation is to perform a careful expose',
delineating design choices. In form, it can look quite a bit like a
tutorial. One time I helped resolve a seriously deadlocked and essential
wg debate by just such an exercise. I did a point-by-point comparison
of the features (functions, benefits, costs, limitations, etc.) between
two choices. The powerpoint slides showed a 3-column table with each
row listing a salient aspect. By the end, the group developed
reasonably good rough consensus towards one choice. My effort was a
'presentation' but every minute of it was useful and, I believe,
appropriate.
We need chairs and everyone else to be clear about what is useful and
what is not and to then allocate (and enforce) time accordingly. This
is a matter of specific wg context and presentation content.
That doesn't happen algorithmically.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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