Re: Interim meetings - changing the way we work
2015-02-26 15:49:20
On Feb 26, 2015:4:30 PM, at 4:30 PM, Joel M. Halpern
<jmh(_at_)joelhalpern(_dot_)com> wrote:
Thomas, if participants who can not make the conference calls are obliged to
listen to the full recordings to get the key points of what has happened,
why, what are the questions, and similar issues that need to be visible to
the WG, then we are not running an inclusive process that allows for
participation by the range of individuals we need.
That is the problem. We're really only geared to have full-on, in
person meetings all the time. That does not lend itself to being
flexible/agile. That is not to say that I want to exclude anyone, but to be
fair, if a subset of people want to move a pile of work forward, we shouldn't
ENCOURAGE that behavior not stifle.
There is a reason that the IETF distinguishes between design teams meetings,
where the design team has to explain their work carefully to the WG, and
working group meetings. There has always been a problem of not getting as
much context as we would like from the WG minutes. But since we explicitly
take all resolutions to the list, this is ameliorated by folks being able to
ask for explanations, by those issues being taken to the list promptly, and
by the fact that we only met 3 times a year. If you have bi-weekly calls and
the WG can not tell what is going on with those calls, then what you have is
a design team. And then the folks involved need to own up to it as a design
team, understand that they need to explain to the list what they have
analyzed, their reasoning, and their conclusions.
Design teams should be able to work asynchronously, but with fixed
schedules and not have to have everything explicitly documented at every step.
If someone else is curious, they can get involved but not in order to slow
things down or throw a monkey wrench into the works. If people want to keep
leaning back on 10 year old process RFCs and arguing "well thats just the way
we've always done things around here" then this organization is going to
continue to slow its progress even more - and its descent into irrelevancy.
There are a lot of people here (myself included) that want to evolve things
because they think the IETF still has a lot to offer the industry. But if the
organization won't evolve, people will take the path of least resistance and go
elsewhere as they have been doing if you haven't noticed.
If you want a real example of how this can actually work, watch Anees
explain how Open Config has done this with just weekly phone calls and a bunch
of people typing on keyboards. They've done this in less than a year, and have
rough consensus and (production) running code. This is how the IETF used to
operate: people got together, hacked code and got things working. The goal was
not having meetings, but producing code with rough consensus.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1421954598097990/networking-scale-recap
--Tom
Yours,
Joel
On 2/26/15 4:21 PM, Thomas D. Nadeau wrote:
On Feb 26, 2015:4:16 PM, at 4:16 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
On 27/02/2015 09:08, Thomas D. Nadeau wrote:
On Feb 26, 2015:2:42 PM, at 2:42 PM, Benson Schliesser
<bensons(_at_)queuefull(_dot_)net> wrote:
Nico Williams wrote:
Yes, but a record that a concall or other interim meeting took place,
and who attended, even if there are incomplete or missing minutes, is
important for IPR reasons. Ensuring that such meetings are NOTE WELL
meetings is (should be) a priority, and that includes ensuring that a
record of that much exists.
Ideally the concalls and other interims would be recorded.
I agree completely. My point was that meeting records (including minutes)
will inevitably be incomplete, or possibly inaccurate, and that relying
on the mailing list as an authoritative record is more effective.
Of course it is disappointing that we can't meaningfully translate voice
discussions into text, in the minutes or in mailing list threads. If
there were some magic tool e.g. that took better minutes then I'd be
happy to use it. But otherwise, I think we just have to trust chairs to
manage WG collaboration in whatever way is most effective for their WG's
collaborators.
The first step is to agree that an A/V recording is record enough.
It absolutely is not enough. Please see my previous message,
and the relevant rules in RFC 2418.
Brian
You are missing my point. RFC or not, the IETF needs to evolve.
--Tom
Perhaps having meetbot/txt notes that at a min include actions/decisions
like we do in the issue tracker we've used for NETMOD's Yang 1.1's issues.
--Tom
This will inevitably be suboptimal for some part of the population. (For
instance, I've never been able to find an interim meeting time that fits
the schedules of all attendees.) But if they (we) always revert to the
mailing list for decision making then I suspect our work can remain open
and transparent.
Cheers,
-Benson
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