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[113attendees] hybrid meetings: the worst of both worlds

Leif Johansson <leifj@sunet.se> Fri, 25 March 2022 13:34 UTC

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Subject: [113attendees] hybrid meetings: the worst of both worlds
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I spent the week onsite in Wienna...

As usual the arrangements are great and the local host made this a very nice experience.

And then there is the hybrid meeting thing... imo hybrid works well as technology and completely sucks on a human level.

This statement may be controversial and/or unpopular in the IETF where we're all about the tech but...

- hybrid means there is not enough folks onsite to create critical mass for the "hallway track"
- remote-participation is arguably better for the technical WG process than onsite at this point
- remote is really bad for the informal discussions (gather is very disappointing imo)

The most efficient WG were where most of the contributurs had decided to show up onsite.

The most important discussions I had were (as usual) not in a WG meeting.

Maybe the IETF needs to rehink the purpouse of onsite meetings.

We have made the remote experience so good that the "professionalized" aspect of churning out RFCs doesn't really need onsite.

However, an IETF with no human interaction might be professional but it won't be efficient.

	Cheers Leif

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