Longer or more meetings?

[John C Klensin]

--On Monday, 09 December, 2002 22:38 -0500 Henning Schulzrinne
<hgs@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Clearly, there's some curve of diminishing returns as you
> approach the continuously meeting IETF. It might be
> interesting to compare the total, per-WG meeting time in other
> organizations. How often do W3C F2F occur? IEEE meetings?
> 
>  From
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/meeting/future_meetings.htm
> l, IEEE 802 plenaries are three times a year

for a full week

> and 802.11 seems to meet once between each plenary.

I couldn't quickly find their meeting schedule, but suspect
another week.  If so, and the same people attend all meetings,
that is six weeks out of the year... and it doesn't include
either 802 WGs or IEEE-SA meetings or its six standing
subcommittees or...  much less preparation and doing real work.

This is, of course, the sort of thing that causes professional
standardizers.

     john