Re: [111attendees] test

Another aspect that needs some thoughts is cost. 

In person participation even if you live in an Airbnb, a 2* hotel or with friends and not at the 5* IETF hotels (even at reduced rates) is a major monetary investment. If we want go get more people involved this has to be in the equation. I am IRTF of course but to get more academic participation the economics are part of it.

But there is more: participants without corporate accounts (see costs above), with family or teaching obligations or with other issues have always participated remotely. So we can just extend it?

And while I really want to start seeing you guys again we need to be realistic.

mjm

Marie-Jose Montpetit, Ing. Ph.D.
marie@mjmontpetit.com

> On Jul 23, 2021, at 10:53 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> You approach this from the angle we have been using for a decade now: remote participation as a backpack on a local meeting.  As you say, that doesn’t work too well.
> 
> Covid-19 gives us a unique chance to actually have the majority of the IETF participants (and not just the weird ones :-) be online.
> 
> Re failures: I would prefer not to have them, instead of worrying how the characteristics of the meeting will change when we do have them.  (I remember the plenary when the power in the hotel failed…  IIRC, we just stopped the meeting for half an hour; but I’m sure there were productive discussions between the people in the room during this time, and that is fine.)
> 
>> Hybrid meetings failed in the past because there was no collective discipline to operate in this way.
> 
> (The backpack thing.  Remote people are weird, and we’ll make “best effort” (i.e., not much at all) to accommodate them.  That, again, is changing.)
> 
> All that said, I don’t mind *some* advantages for people who actually travel; but I’m sure those advantages will be on the hallways and not in the meetings.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
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