Longer or more meetings?

[Aaron Falk]

--On Monday, December 09, 2002 7:04 PM -0800 Dave Crocker
<dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:

> 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?
> 

The observation has been made before that there's probably only, at most, a
couple dozen folks in a wg that are really contributing.  The challenge of
the wg chair is to find the best way to get those folks to meet.  This will
vary depending on the individual circumstances of the participants and wg
chairs need to be flexible and creative to find the best way to work.

--aaron

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