答复: Agenda experiment for IETF 103 in November in Bangkok

["Zhenghaomian (Zhenghaomian, Optical &Microwave Technology Research Dept)" <[e-mail]>]

I would support this, as the joint work with other Societies would be useful in many technical areas. 

It would be more than appreciated if IETF can spend efforts on organizing such workshops, thanks. 

Best wishes,
Haomian

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发件人: ietf [mailto:[e-mail]] 代表 Daniel Harkins
发送时间: 2018年6月6日 4:20
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主题: Re: Agenda experiment for IETF 103 in November in Bangkok


On 5/31/18 8:56 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> János Farkas <[e-mail]> wrote:
>      > I'm afraid IETF 103 may not be the best IETF meeting to experiment with
>      > ending the IETF meeting on Thursday.
>
> Interesting.
>
>      > Given the unique opportunity of this November, we have started to investigate
>      > the possibility of joint workshops of different groups of the two
>      > organizations. I'm aware of two: IETF - IEEE 802 Coordination workshop and
>      > DetNet - TSN/IEC workshop, but there may be more.
>
> Maybe some of these things could occur on the Friday?

   Exactly!

>
>      > IEEE 802 Plenary meetings start on Monday
>      > (http://802world.org/plenary/schedule/).
>
>      > Increasing the gap between the two meetings may decrease the participation
>      > thus the success of such workshops
>
> So the gap will grow from two days to three days.

   There are IEEE 802.11 meetings that happen on Sunday and I expect that other 802 groups may also have leadership/planning meetings on Sunday. These are at the level of IETF - IEEE 802 Coordination though.
Your average Joe IETFer and Jane IEEEer will not be going to these.

   Increasing the gap from 2 to 3 days does not seem to pose a problem to people who would be attending these meetings anyway. If you're gonna stay in Bangkok over the weekend then you're gonna stay in Bangkok over the weekend.

>
> I'm not among those who is involved in IEEE802 meetings, but if I 
> were, I don't think the change would negatively affect my decision to 
> stay: it's not like I get home a day earlier either way.
>
> (If I were among those who had the time and funding to do both 
> meetings, I would find the back to back meetings would be a 
> significant dis-incentive to attend both. I don't think it contributes 
> to cross-fertilization, and I think that it creates significant 
> family-based barriers to entry)
>
> Having the three day gap might even make the gap easier to enjoy, if 
> one did bring a family with you.
>
> To me, the only thing that would change this is if we moved the 
> Hackathon to the weekend afterwards, such that the gap was entirely 
> filled. That would also potentially mix hackathoners with IETF and IEEE people.

   As someone who will probably attend both IETF and IEEE 802 and who is not in IETF or IEEE 802 leadership, I'd really appreciate a break to get out of the hotel (and maybe even Bangkok). Yes, the gap would not only make it easier to enjoy but also easier to tolerate.

   I think your idea of the moving the hackathon to the weekend afterwards to be very interesting. If IEEE 802 was able to promote it between now and then it might result in the cross-pollination you refer to-- more people with a different perspective. That might actually be a reason to stay in Bangkok and it might increase the number of people who stay during the gap (beyond the IETF - IEEE 802 leadership).

   Dan.