On 07/03/2014 04:13, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
Hi Brian,
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:55:57AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Get speakers we know, and avoid speakers with management job titles.
Is there a danger in that case of the technical plenary turning into
an echo chamber, where we only talk to ourselves? (That's not a
rhetorical question; I'm asking for real.)
Yes, there is that risk, and "someone we know" doesn't have to be
an IETF regular, although when there's something provocative like
CODEL, why not take a regular? Or take something a bit out of our orbit
like Coded TCP?
On 07/03/2014 04:54, Jari Arkko wrote:
no risk no gain.
Agreed, but I'd rather risk it being too technical and hard to
understand. (Personally I found the DHT talk a few years ago hard
too understand, but an absolutely appropriate topic.)
On 07/03/2014 04:58, Thomas Narten wrote:
One of the the surest ways to vet speakers is talk to people you know
and trust who have heard (first hand) talks given by the proposed
speaker. Getting recommendations 2nd and 3rd hand are intrinsically
more risky.
Very true.
Brian