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Re: Time to encourage interims instead of main meetings?

2015-08-18 14:17:12

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:
    > Historically there has been a pushback on a WG holding an interim
    > meeting instead of meeting at an IETF main meeting. Yes, cross-WG
    > communication and all that.

Virtual Interim meetings are a really good thing.  3-4 hour block of time.
The challenge is that all of the COTS providers (G+, webex, lync, goto*)
all have constraints that affect at least some group of people.
Our pure webrtc solution (JITSI.tools) does not (yet) work in as many
browsers as one would like... and the I* seem reluctant as a group
to try new things.

    > Particularly early on in a WG, a two day interim can be a lot more use
    > than a two hour main meeting event.

At two-day interim, an in-person meeting is definitely very valuable,
particularly early on in a WG's life, but there are significant issues if one
can't get all the critical participants to the meeting.

And a two-day in-person interim with a few remote participants is far less
useful than three 4-hour virtual interims, in my opinion.

--
Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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