Re: [73attendees] Attendance by country

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 12/4/08 2:26 PM, "Dean Willis" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Sounds cool, but I haven't been able to follow a remote multiparty
> meeting successfully for a long time.

I've found that it's hit-and-miss.  I've attended maybe
2 IETF meetings in the last 3 years but done the rest
remotely, and there are chairs who run very remote-friendly
meetings and chairs who don't.  (For that matter there
are chairs who run very in-person-friendly meetings and
ones who don't).  It can be done, and it *has* been
done in the IETF.  Maybe we could have better slide-
sharing tools or whiteboarding but I don't think it's
necessary.  Anyway,

> And frankly, judging consensus on-list is a lot tricker than in a
> room. On-list, I seldom get more then 6 responses to even the most
> critical poll. While one might question how many responses in a room
> are "informed", it is still at least 3x higher.

The canonical hippie-esque way to do "real" consensus
decision-making doesn't require input from everybody
in the room or on the mailing list.  In fact, to some
extent it relies on individuals having the good
judgment to sit out a decision if they aren't familiar
with the issues, don't have a dog in the hunt, or
even if they disagree but don't want to block progress.

Melinda

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