Re: [73attendees] Attendance by country

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Scott Brim wrote:
> I would work on making the face-to-face meetings almost irrelevant.

That makes sense in theory, but there are two things working against  
it.   First, a large amount of IETF in-person meeting participation is  
as much a junket as it is a necessity (I know not everyone sees it  
this way, please don't flame me just because you happen to be one of  
those people), so I would expect to see substantial resistance to  
eliminating in-person meetings.

Secondly, a lot of what I get done at IETF meetings happens between  
sessions.   The sessions themselves are largely superfluous - mostly  
people get up and spent ten minutes of the agenda at a time explaining  
things to us that we aren't interested in, or if we are interested in,  
have already read and understood.   So we just sit and type on our  
laptops, waiting for some interesting discussion.   The real meat of  
an IETF meeting is the face-to-face discussion between principals.    
To me the main purpose of the in-person wg meetings is to trigger  
those between-meeting conversations.


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