Re: IETF 107 and Corona Virus? - timezone

[Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>]

We all suffer from and recover from jet lag in different ways, and the same with adapting to antisocial work shifts, but I find the TZ argument strange.

If you want to attend the whole meeting, then shifting your day is no worse than what first responders such as the police service do every week here in UK. 

At least with doing a time shift rather than a trip you do not need to worry about the dehydration and stress of a long flight.

Stewart

> On 16 Feb 2020, at 07:37, Roni Even (A) <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> One issue to consider about having  an entirely virtual meeting is what are the implication on participants in different time zone.
> Attending  few scattered session may not be a big issue but if one wants to attend many sessions it becomes a problem.
> 
> My personal experience when trying to attend a QUIC WG Interim meeting in Japan was very bad.
> 
> 1. The meeting time for me was from 2:00AM till 10:00 AM. (9:00-17:00 in Japan) for three days.
> 2. I used the lunch break to try to catch some sleep, due to lack of enough time to sleep
> 3. Starting at 2:00 AM did not provide enough time to have a healthy night sleep before starting my daily attendance.
> 4. The recovery from the "jetlag" was much slower than when attending the meeting in person.
> 
> My conclusion was that I will try to avoid as much as I can this mode of participating from remote in a meeting that takes a couple of days in which I have to attend multiple sessions.
> It is not healthy.
> 
> 
> One other advantage of a f2f meeting is the "official" and non-official off line sessions/meetings that I find very productive while attending the IETF meeting
> 
> If a full virtual meeting will happen and use Vancouver time zone than daily meeting from 9-18 will be 19-4AM for me
> 
> 
> Roni Even
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ietf [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Andrew Alston
>> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:48 AM
>> To: [e-mail]
>> Subject: IETF 107 and Corona Virus?
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am just wondering if there are any thoughts on the status of the IETF 107
>> meeting in light of the corona virus.
>> 
>> Particularly in light of the fact that for safety reasons mobile world congress
>> has been cancelled and we're seeing other events being cancelled in light of
>> this as well.  Should it be considered a safe and responsible move to go
>> ahead with this meeting or should we be looking at an entirely virtual
>> meeting in light of the situation?
>> 
>> Andrew
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