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Re: Saturday as start day

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Wed, 21 June 2017 17:59 UTC

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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:59:27 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Lee Howard <lee@asgard.org>
Cc: Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Saturday as start day
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 01:17:45PM -0400, Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/21/17, 9:53 AM, "ietf on behalf of Christian Huitema"
> <ietf-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of huitema@huitema.net> wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >The problem is that we now are expected to have work going non stop from
> >Saturday to Friday. 7 full days. Maybe I am just old, but that does not
> >look healthy.
> >
> >-- Christian Huitema
> 
> That’s already what many of us do, with 12-16 hour days, following our
> regular work week the previous week, and slipping actual travel time in
> between other work.
> 
> It’s not that anybody expects me to work that amount of time, it’s just
> that that’s the amount of work I need to get done during IETF weeks. Many
> times I’ve had people want to schedule hours-long meetings on Sunday
> “before” IETF, but I have IETF commitments that day. So this updating the
> description to match reality.

I don't think anyone is disputing that this is updating the
description to match reality.  I believe Christian's question is
an attempt to prompt us to reassess that reality and its
sustainability, which seems a fair question to consider.

-Ben

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