On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Stephen Farrell
<stephen(_dot_)farrell(_at_)cs(_dot_)tcd(_dot_)ie> wrote:
So, I'd be really interested in hearing from people who've
been participating a bit for a while and who'd consider themselves
as "newer participants" (define that yourself however you want)...
If you've been to a f2f meeting what difference did that make
to how you participate via mailing lists and remote tools?
or
If you've not been to a f2f meeting, what's your experience of
participation via mailing lists and (especially) remote tools?
My new participant response:
1. It's made a big big difference being able to attend f2f meetings.
2. Remote participation works very well for consumers.
While CDT has been participating at IETF (with some gaps) for many
years, I definitely consider myself personally to be a newer
participant, with my first IETF being 89 in London but having missed
90 (Vancouver) and 95 (BA).
We've gone so far as sought funding from grantmaking philanthropic
organizations (as have others like Article 19 and the ACLU) to support
our IETF work, and a very important part of that support is being able
to ensure we can attend IETF in person. Not only do you get to know
peoples' voices and such, but the "hallway track" is in essence "many
fine lunches and dinners" (although for IESG, etc. that must be
brutal!) that inevitably involves a lot of technical discussion (and
policy discussion, oh my!).
I found the remote participation at IETF 95 to be amazing (sure, there
were hiccups, but we troubleshoot and make it better)... but it is
definitely focused (rightly so) on good transmission of WG meeting
goings-on and remote presentations (e.g., participating in a
non-meetecho meeting is rough).
I can imagine remote participation is different for a "consumer" like
me (tend to comment on documents more than author or implement, heh)
than very active roles like IESG member, WG chair or editor.
best, Joe
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