Re: IETF in July

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

My first thoughts turn to A/V services like Zoom, and to mailing lists. I suppose I sound very traditional, but I don’t think this requires a lot of reinvention.

If there is one lesson I’d like us to collectively learn, it’s that delaying a decision to the last possible minute enhances the confusion and damage it causes. If we’re going to cancel IETF-108, I’d like to see that decision announced in mid-June. For IETF 107, we didn’t quite know what was coming, but we could observe that other bodies were canceling events. For IETF 108, we know that the statistics we know say either that it will be over - nobody is sick worldwide - or it will not be over, by then. If the latter is objectively true, not changing the meeting in some way in June is a matter of collectively kidding ourselves.

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> On Mar 20, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Keith Moore <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On 3/20/20 4:42 PM, Ron Bonica wrote:
>> Is anybody planning contingencies for a fully remote IETF in July? (I don’t mean to be a pessimist, but planning for a worst-case scenario is never a bad idea).
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> Don't stop at July 2020.   Plan contingencies through at least EOY 2021.    Until there's global herd immunity of one kind or another, continued restrictions on travel seem likely. 
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