Re: [108attendees] Successful IETF 108

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 8/4/20 3:02 AM, Benoit Claise wrote:

> With 4 meetings/year instead of 3, we know that IETF would move 
> faster. To (try to) be on par with opensource projects speed, we have 
> to adopt monthly or bi-weekly virtual calls. Whether you call that 
> design team (with only active participants) or working group meeting 
> (with everybody), it's a detail.

I'm not a big fan of monthly or bi-weekly calls because that discourages 
cross-area review and increases the potential for groups to work at 
cross-purposes with one another.  Of course, under current pandemic 
circumstances, increased use of virtual interim meetings is better than 
slowing to a standstill.

On the other hand, if we're not going to be traveling physically to 
meetings for a few years, we could perhaps increase frequency of 
IETF-wide meetings as you suggest.

Basically I think these conditions are likely to be with us long enough 
that we'll have to change our habits of working.   Which might be a good 
thing because we've been stuck in these habits for 20+ years.   But 
there are lots of considerations to take into account.

Keith