Re: Excessive use of interim meetings

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:29:43AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 2/16/20 2:37 AM, Roni Even (A) wrote:
> > My personal experience when trying to attend a QUIC WG Interim meeting in Japan was very bad.
> 
> Not to single out QUIC, but I've formed the opinion that some WGs are making
> excessive use of interim meetings (whether face-to-face or virtual) in
> preference to email.   Part of the purpose of using email for discussion
> (and insisting that consensus be reached over email) was to permit effective
> participation from anywhere, and thus, to encourage diversity among
> participants.   We recognize that occasional face-to-face meetings are very
> helpful, but interim face-to-face meetings thwart this long-established
> effort to encourage diversity.   Even virtual interim meetings have this
> effect due to the difficult of participating from very remote time zones.

All consensus should be confirmed on-list.

And all interims should have virtual attendance capabilities.

Provided that happens, I do not begrudge lots of interims for WGs where
this is useful.  (I would if it happened for many many WGs, because
there is only so much energy many participants can reserve for IETF
participation.)

Nico
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