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Re: [77attendees] Ad hoc meetings (Was: Re: Bar BoF: ip traceback)

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Tue, 30 March 2010 19:29 UTC

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BOFs have now often become the equivalent of Senate committee hearings: they are staged for the benefit of the senators (ADs and the IAB attendees), to convince them that there's a group of mature adults in the room who can get work done. (Or, conversely, for opponents of the effort to create doubts about the maturity.) It has become relatively rare for the BOF to do technical work - the emphasis is more process-oriented, focusing on charters. Thus, we naturally are looking for an outlet that is less of a project review/audition and more technical, with barBOFs filling that role. It is not clear that this division is all that productive, given the cycle time issues.

Henning

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