Longer or more meetings?

Margaret Wasserman mrw@windriver.com
Sat, 07 Dec 2002 10:51:14 -0500


At 10:16 AM 12/7/2002 -0500, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>Other SDOs, such as W3C, rely much more heavily on teleconferences, 
>typically weekly. With modern web-based meeting support tools (shared 
>whiteboard, shared slide viewing, text chat for questions, etc.), these 
>can be fairly effective. They also avoid the "selection by travel budget" 
>problem that you do not mention below.

One heretical thought on the selection by travel budget "problem":  Why
is it a problem?

We've concerned about the lack of "relevance" of our standards, right?
And how do we measure "relevance"?  It seems that we measure it, mainly,
by the commercial success and wide deployment of our protocols.

If a person/company doesn't have the budget to travel to meetings to
work on a protocol, what is the chance that they have the resources to
implement the protocol and/or make it a commercial success?

Margaret