Re: Structure of IETF meeting weeks (was: Re: IAOC requesting input on (potential) meeting cities)

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Toerless,

Responding with this thread as it’s not about meeting locations.

> On Apr 18, 2017, at 2:34 PM, Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> On 18/04/17 22:22, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>> For example, there is a lot of death by powerpoint in meetings that pushes off
>> high bandwidth discussions ("oh, we're out of time"). AFAIK, most active work
>> on drafts during IETF meeting week happens outside of the WG meetings. I think that
>> a) was not the original plan, and b) i have not seen IAOC sending around questionaires
>> what/how to improve the quality of the meetings in this respect.

Regarding powerpoint, the problem isn't the use of slides, it the w.g., chairs not dealing with presenters who shows up with 20 slides for a 10 minutes slot, and the chairs not allocating enough time for a real discussions.

I think the meetings would be a lot more productive if a w.g. could have a meeting at the start of the week, work on the the issues during the week, send updates to the mailing list, have email and face to face discussions, and then have a second session at the end of the week to get consensus.  Clearly, impossible to schedule this with our current number of working groups, but I think it would make for a more productive week.

Bob