Re: Agenda experiment for IETF 103 in November in Bangkok

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 1:26 AM Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
wrote:


> John C Klensin <[e-mail]> wrote:
>      > organization.  Suppose someone (or several people) for whom I'm
>      > responsible are really good implementers.  Suppose they come to me
and
>      > say something that I hear as "we would like to go to IETF a day or
two
>      > early, incur additional costs for hotels and the like that we expect
>      > you to pay for, and spend the time doing programming on their work
>      > rather than yours/ the company's".  I wouldn't predict good
results, at
>      > least unless I hear the request as including "if you don't let me do
>      > this, I'm likely to start looking for another job" and, of course,
that
>      > might or might not work.

> "Boss, J,K,Q and I will be working 30 hours overtime (each) that weekend
getting
> the interoperability bugs out of the code before we go to the IETF meeting
> about the specification that determines what code we are supposed to
write".

> It actually won't get to "looking for another job", because the person
likely
> left when the IETF support went away.


Yup, I see the hackathon as something which makes it easier, not harder to
get support for.
I see more of the "we would like to go to the hackathon to work with others
on making sure our thingie works with their thingie. I'd like to stay a few
days extra to attend the IETF as well" -- for some set of people, the
chance for vendor G and vendor H to cooperate is more valuable than the
(perceived) navel-gazing and comma fighting.

W


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-- 
I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in
the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of
pants.
    ---maf