Re: [hybi] draft Agenda

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 3/10/10 2:37 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Salvatore Loreto
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> the *draft* agenda for Anaheim is available at:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/10mar/agenda/hybi.html
> 
> Since most of the people involved in this effort are likely not going
> to be attending the face to face meeting, could I request that the
> "Process and way of working" topic be discussed on the mailing list
> rather than at the meeting? I fear that if we discuss this with only a
> subset of the group, specifically a subset that self-selected as
> people willing to go to face-to-face meetings, we will end up with a
> process that is not optimal for the majority of the people involved.

IMHO there is no "rather than" here. It can be quite productive to
discuss such issues over a high-bandwidth connection, i.e., in person,
especially when we might need to gather input regarding IETF process
from the people who know that topic best. However, the results of that
in-person discussion will be preliminary and WG consensus will be
determined after the meeting on this list. The IETF's face-to-face
meetings are not, and are not intended to be, exclusionary in any way,
and consensus is always determined based on input from the full WG, not
the subset of the WG that happens to show up at any given face-to-face
meeting.

Peter

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