Re: [107all] Update on IETF 107 Vancouver and COVID-19

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 05/03/2020 à 12:18, Carsten Bormann a écrit :
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> It would be really useful if people who won’t come could transfer
> themselves from the local to the remote attendance part, in the
> attendance list or in a separate statistic.

This is a very good question.  I have been trapped by a wrong transition 
of meeting from f2f to online, where I am almost missing the online 
meeting which was transited from a f2f meeting, because I did not register.

The thing is the following: everyone should be treated as online by 
default.  Anyone should be able to join online.

It should not be like this: everyone who registered is allowed to join 
online.

It is the quintessence of how web sites are designed: they can be 
browsed by anyone.  That's how it grew.

I understand this might involve a change in the payment scheme for the 
meeting, but I always wondered why it is not that way: everyone should 
be able to join.

Alex

> 
> For planning purposes, I’m spending too much time asking people
> whether they’ll come, and this would take out some of the guesswork.
> 
> (Of course, some are speculating that the corporate ban will still be
> lifted…  Not much time left, but it would be nice if the reverse
> transition were possible without incurring additional cost.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
>