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Re: Structure of IETF meeting weeks

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 19 April 2017 15:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: Structure of IETF meeting weeks
To: Aaron Falk <aafalk@akamai.com>
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On 4/19/2017 8:43 AM, Aaron Falk wrote:
> Not this is a significant problem. I manage this by not going to 
> meetings that have uninteresting agendas. Same for Bits-n-Bytes. C.f. 
> George Michaelson’s talk 
> <http://snaggletooth.akam.ai/Chicago-videos/05-george-michaelson-8.mp4> 
> about having IETF meetings in the hallways…


The general form of this philosophy if full-blown libertarianism, 
placing all the responsibility for time management on the individual and 
no filters on scheduling any of the events.

Among other things, this model ignores the group effects of scheduling 
without regard for importance or utility.

d/


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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