Hi Moonesamy,
On Saturday, October 4, 2014, S Moonesamy wrote:
The argument for the week-long meeting is that it is to encourage
cross-area participation. Has that happened in practice [1]?
IMO not happened in practice and does cost us money. We have WGs with small
attendance that need to join together for cross-participations. For example
when I attended a one day IETF89 meeting I expected MANET WG to have
attendance of above 20 but was not, the room was able to take 100 so we
were using only about 20% which can be seen as waste of money. I suggest if
WG meet in IETF avenues with less than 20 we join it with others for cross
participation.
There is a steep barrier to participation (re. don't have the time to
focus full-time). It is worthwhile to consider whether breaking that
barrier for developers and implementers is worth it.
Good point. I want to add that there may be many small size WGs that are
taking separate rooms while they may be in the same area or can join
another WG as cross-participation. THAT separation COSTS MONEY and TIME per
meeting. If we look into attendance size per WG per room-size per
meeting-time, then we may find better strategies for reservation expenses
and cross WG/area participation.
AB
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1. I mean whether there is cross-area participation from new people.