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Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@qualcomm.com> Tue, 09 August 2011 17:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] diverse meeting locations (was: are we getting complacent? Good job!)
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At 8:30 AM +0300 8/9/11, Yoav Nir wrote:

>  There are working group sessions with about 8-10 people sitting in 
> the front rows and actually listening, plus 30-40 more sitting in 
> the back reading email and charging their laptops. This creates a 
> false impression of the level of interest in the working group, and 
> it also skews the feel of the room when trying to assess consensus. 
> "Who thinks we should take on this item?" 8 people out of 50 raise 
> their hand. How is the chair or AD to know that 40 of those 50 are 
> just tourists?  It looks like the group has said "meh".

At a minimum, always ask the converse question: "Who feels this is 
work is not ready, not appropriate, or not within the charter?"

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Randall Gellens
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