On Feb 14, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Mary Barnes
<mary(_dot_)h(_dot_)barnes(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I think the biggest problem that high quality remote participation will
introduce is that companies will become even more reluctant to send people to
the face to face meetings. I do still see value in people attending face to
face IETF meetings with some regularity, I strongly believe that IETF moving
to a model that doesn't require so many people to travel to get the work done
is a good thing and ought to be a longterm objective.
Fewer F2F meetings per year would be one way to accomplish this: encourage more
interim virtual meetings, and then cut back to two or one f2f meeting per year.
Of course now we have strayed a very long way from the original topic, but I
guess that was inevitable... :)