Re: Registration details for IETF 108

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

> On 11 Jun 2020, at 13:01, Randy Bush <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> let me see if i can push you just a little bit out of the box.  a
>>> small step.
>>> 
>>> there are two time slots in the day which work for what i call three
>>> continent calls, apac, emea/africa, noam/alyc.  each day a different
>>> wg meets in one of those two slots of *their* choice.  thus the ietf
>>> 'meeting' is smeared over three months.
>> 
>> Keep pushing.
>> 
>> And this would win us a schedule free of WG meeting clashes, and
>> avoidance of several hundred drafts being published in 24 hours with
>> very little hope of reading the ones that interest you before the WG
>> meeting.
>> 
>> Many WGs are already embracing more frequent online interims, so
>> “smearing” the work is already happening.  The question is whether
>> some structure like the above is preferred, or ad-hoc meetings as and
>> when each WG wants them.
> 
> an example
> 
> https://ooni.org/post/2020-internet-measurement-village/#schedule
> 
> TMA2020, which i am attending as i type, is a more classic format,
> mixing zoom and slack, and is time skewed somewhat to try to have a
> timezone footprint which is not too onerous for asia and the americas.
> but they tried to innovate in the discussions, per-paper slack channels,
> interactive q&a, etc.
> 
> maybe the hardest part is what our community refers to as 'the hallway.'
> i am looking for communities trying to innovate in this space.  imiho,
> this is really important.  i can read your paper/draft/...  and zoom +q
> interaction is about as good as the mic line.  but hanging out,
> discussing, gossiping, ...  is more important to us funny monkeys the
> tools seem to support.


I’ve seen a couple of conferences using gather.town – there’s a video from PLDI at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0xZLJVhzPc that talks about their plans.

We’ve had some discussion of trying it with IETF, although it’s not clear it’ll work at the scale we need.

Colin