Re: [hrpc] About the meeting yesterdayg

Another option might be to have one IETF a year that is more
presentation-heavy and the others that are more like working sessions?

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Niels ten Oever <niels@article19.org>
wrote:

> I agree that the time division was not ideal yesterday, but I think
> presentations did help our thinking and conversation further (also the
> observation that other standards bodies approach this problem differently
> is quite relevant I think, it might mean we're doing something useful).
>
> Since we have been running out of time quite consistently in recent
> meeting, it might be a solution to request more time, and then ensure we
> use a maximum of 50% of our time on presentations and at least 50% on
> discussions and bringing work further?
>
> If people like that idea, I would also be very interested to hear whether
> people think it might be useful to do work in other configurations than the
> default (the default being: someone stands in front of the room and present
> something, and other queue in front of the mic (and most people are glued
> to their screen)). Could we use break-out groups to work on different
> documents? Or use break-out groups to discuss different topics with report
> backs at the end of the session?
>
> Curious to hear your thoughts.
>
> Best,
>
> Niels
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:06:48AM -0500, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > I have reservations about the format of yesterday's meeting in
> > Chicago. IMHO, there were too many formal presentations and not enough
> > discussion on actual drafts.
> >
> > The presentations were typically interesting (except the one by IEEE,
> > which was on the verge of corporate public relations) but were not
> > really for a RG meeting and, more important, ate 75 % of the meeting
> > time, which is too much.
> >
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