Re: Update on IETF 108 Planning

[Töma Gavrichenkov <[e-mail]>]

Peace,

> IETF 108 is scheduled to be held 25-31 July 2020
> in Madrid, Spain. However, based on current
> conditions in Spain and around the world, we are
> actively planning for a virtual version of the IETF
> 108 meeting.
>
> We expect to start a survey soon that will help us
> understand the community’s preferences about
> many aspects of future virtual IETF meetings.

I suggest asking whether we need a "meeting" at all if everyone is on remote.

IETF meetings were a nice way to cut some travel expenses (by having
everyone you need in the same room for 7 days) and to get in touch
with people during cool social events.  There are no more parties, and
there's no more travel.

Otherwise, nearly every active WG is holding their own interim calls
already, and it's quite convenient when those are not densely packed
into a week (creating scheduling conflicts and overlaps) and are not
required to be bound to an early morning in a specific timezone
(though Madrid's got CEST which personally fits me well).

--
Töma