Re: [93attendees] Meeting schedule

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

Hi Brian,

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:51:20PM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> I am a little puzzled about the goal of the technical presentations
> in the IAB plenary, but I'm ready to be educated.

>From my point of view, the goal of these presentations is to highlight
technical topics that we (on the IAB) think might be of interest to a
broad cross-section of the IETF community.  In my experience, we try
to pick issues that are likely to affect several different areas in
the IETF, that still have open work that relate to IETF protocols, and
that we think will have general appeal.  Admittedly, our judgement is
not always perfect; and some such presentations are more successful
than others.  But that is the goal.  We also have a principle that
such plenary presentations should be technically interesting or
entertaining, and ideally both.

Naturally, for some portion of the population we will sometimes fail
in this aim every time.  If you're another expert in the particular
field in question it's quite unlikely you'll learn anything in a
presentation aimed at a plenary audience (though even there, you might
learn something about how -- or how not -- to present the issues to
such an audience).

I hope that's useful.

Andrew (speaking for myself)

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