Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

Given the relatively important meetings that tend to occur on
Saturday and Sunday before the main IETF meeting, the Sunday
tutorials, this would probably not let nearly enough people show
up Monday afternoon (for Tuesday meetings) to be worth it.  Now,
if one adopted your suggestion but but the "overview session" on
the previous Friday, that would be a different matter... except
that the people for whom those sessions would be most important
would not come.

     john

--On Friday, 18 July, 2008 14:28 -0400 Keith Moore
<moore@network-heretics.com> wrote:

>> Do we spend too much time with overviews of drafts that
>> really should  have been read by all attendees beforehand?
>> Maybe it would be good for  the first session on Monday to be
>> an "Area Overview" session where an  overview of all the
>> latest drafts can be "presented" to give people a  broader
>> view of what is going on? Actually I have often felt that the 
>> IESG plenary would be a good place for area directors to give
>> status  updates/overviews of the work going on in their areas.
> 
> On reading this I found myself wondering if the "real" IETF WG
> meetings   - these consisting of actual discussions - should
> be Tuesday-Friday. Then Mondays could be used to conduct
> "presentation" or "introductory" or "catch up"  sessions for
> each of the WGs.  Attendees who hadn't read the documents and
> kept up with the mailing list, along with document authors and
> WG chairs, would be expected to attend on Mondays so that they
> could catch up on the material.  Everyone else could show up
> on Tuesday and stay through Friday.
> 
> I'm also tempted to suggest that there be an extra charge for
> attendance on Mondays (other than for WG chairs and people
> presenting material), with the proceeds split between the
> secretariat and the people doing presentations.
> 
> I honestly think that "catch up" sessions could be quite
> valuable in several ways.  They could help newcomers to a
> particular WG get up to speed, they could facilitate more
> cross-area review, they could make the   real discussions more
> effective by minimizing time spent explaining things to those
> who weren't caught up.
> 
> Keith
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