Longer or more meetings?

[John C Klensin]

--On Sunday, December 08, 2002 11:55 AM +0200
"john.loughney@nokia.com" <john.loughney@nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
>> Suggestion: Insist that WGs conduct interim meetings so they 
>> could face off in day-sized units, not slots of an hour or
>> two  duration.  At area option, cluster these interim
>> meetings into  several-day sequences, with overlaps and
>> sequences to be  determined by the ADs.  Cut full IETF
>> meetings back to once a  year, and focus their schedule
>> around interactions,  cross-fertilization, and cross-checking
>> within and between areas  and on issues of IETF-wide
>> importance.
> 
> One possible half-way point is to try to schedule
> cluster-interims, or co-interims, so that folks interested in
> several WGs that  are somehow related, could have an easier
> time to co-ordindinate work.  I know this has been done in the
> past to some extent, such as SIPxxx WGs and IPv6/NGTrans.
> Expanding this might be very useful.

That was pretty much what I had in mind.  Again, I'm not
convinced that this is a good idea -- one of the things that I
believe is very important to quality in the IESG is cross-area
and cross-speciality interaction and this probably wouldn't help
with that -- but it seemed worth exploring to see where it would
lead.

best,
    john