Longer or more meetings?

[Dave Crocker]

Basavaraj,


Monday, December 9, 2002, 4:34:38 PM, you wrote:

Basavaraj> Another thing to note is that the 2 hr or 2.5 hr meeting at the
Basavaraj> IETFs is rarely sufficient. In order to get everything on the
Basavaraj> agenda fit in, chairs tend to close discussions or push it
Basavaraj> off to the list. This is counter-productive. One way to deal
Basavaraj> with this is to increase WG meeting times to half-a-day slots. 

That would double the length of the IETF meeting to be 8 days. So this is
another case of needing to find a balance.

Also, if 1/2 day is better than 2 hours, why isn't a full day better still,
or 2 days or 4? This, of course, leads to the focus that has been developing
on having interim meetings. As has been noted, however, the implied
requirement to attend meetings, is exclusionary.

Perhaps the real challenge is to find way to do more work online and/or more
work in design teams that are legitimately responsive to working group rough
consensus?

d/
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