FWIW, for the sake of understanding where we are, I did a small calculation of
the available meeting time for the last few meetings, and thought it would be
interesting to share.
The number to watch for is the session hours, i.e., time that we’re in regular
IETF meetings. That time doesn’t include breaks, lunches, Sunday events, etc.
Those session hours get used in different ways, sometimes we break them into
shorter sessions, sometimes it is used for 8 parallel WG sessions, sometimes it
is used for 1 joint plenary meeting, etc.
But of course, us individuals do have other things beyond the regular IETF
meetings, say design team or IESG or other side meetings, may not attend all
sessions (shock!) and so on.
The data is presented without any particular conclusion. I’ll just point out
that we can independently adjust:
* length of day, implying longer or shorter full days (incl. side things)
* timing within the days, start at 9 or 10
* parallelism, i.e., number of tracks that will impact conflicts but also our
capacity to host meetings that the WGs have requested
* number of plenaries (with the recent trend being 1 plenary) which affects
joint vs. WG time split
Here’s the data on available session hours. (Disclaimer: there’s always the
danger of me having miscounted somewhere.)
89:
sessions 21
session hours 38.5
90:
sessions 18
session hours 35.5
91:
sessions 18
session hours 35.5
92:
sessions 18
session hours 35.0
93:
sessions 19
session hours 36.0
94:
sessions 16
session hours 33.0
95:
sessions 18
session hours 33.0
96:
sessions 17
session hours 33.0
I also counted how many WG meetings and meeting hours there were. So for
instance, if we had 10 sessions and each one of them was 2 hours long and had
eight fully occupied tracks, that would be 10*2*8 = 160 hours. Again, as I just
did a quick count, I could have missed something or miscalculated somewhere.
And I didn’t change the counting due to cancellations.
89:
WG meetings 140
WG meeting hours 256.0
90:
WG meetings 126
WG meeting hours 246.0
91:
WG meetings 128
WG meeting hours 257.0
92:
WG meetings 128
WG meeting hours 244.5
93:
WG meetings 134
WG meeting hours 249.0
94:
WG meetings 118
WG meeting hours 236.5
95:
WG meetings 131
WG meeting hours 238.0
96:
WG meetings 128
WG meeting hours 244.0
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