To be clear, this is a replacement (update) of
https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/interim-meetings.html That statement needed
some gardening, and as far as I can tell, this revision is mainly such
gardening. So is there anything new tucked away in there?
I see...
Extended sequences of virtual interim meetings should be the exception and
not the norm
as they might exclude participants and might leave a less complete record,
depending on
how complete the meeting minutes are. Where working group chairs wish to
schedule a
sequence of more than four virtual interims, the chairs must explicitly set
out the reasoning
for that in a mail to the list and check that there is rough consensus for
that plan. Such
extended sequences also require AD approval.
I don't object to the actions required to set up and authorise a sequence of
meetings.
I think that the causal text is broken: there is no reason to assume that such
meetings might leave a less complete record or have less complete minutes.
As to whether participants are excluded or not, I don't know whether multiple
meetings are more or less likely to exclude participation than a single meeting.
How about leaving out "as they might.....minutes are."
The mention of AD approval is also useful, but note that previous mention of AD
approval (for individual physical interim meetings) is somewhat implicit in the
new version prior to this paragraph. It used to be present in the old version,
and is still present in the bullet list. It might be nice to make it clear up
front that all physical interims require AD approval, and also possibly clarify
that virtual interims do not ned AD approval.
There is a typo: "area Director"
Adrian
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