Re: Number of interim meetings?

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Mon, 20 August 2012 03:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: Number of interim meetings?
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The announcements for interim meetings are posted here:
http://www.ietf.org/meeting/interim.html.

Without doing any statistical analysis, the list does not show a shift in the way the IETF is working. Some WGs like to make use of face-to-face or virtual interim meetings.  Most do this when they are really digging into a technical specification.

Russ

On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> Is anyone tracking the number of interim meetings?  It seems as
> if the number has been growing quite a bit, although that may be
> a function of the number of working groups.  It might be
> interesting to try to get a handle on whether or not there's been
> some sort of shift in working methods within the organization.
> 
> Melinda