[Manycouches] Summary of discussions on meeting cadence

[Amelia Andersdotter <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

During IETF108 we discussed a bit how to organise a meeting (cadency,
time-zone, etc), but the organisation seems to depend on the expected
outcome of the meeting. For some, the cross-pollination between WGs and
social aspects of the IETF are very important. For others, it's more
important to do focussed work with interested specialists, with a view
to coming to a finalized standards document.

These two different goals of meetings are somehow conflicting. If many
WG participants are from the same geographical area or time zone, and
their focus is on completing standards and specifications, it is more
reasonable for these participants to organise interim meetings in their
time-zone of convenience. But if participants feel that they want to do
tourism in areas that they don't normally work on to get a more complete
view of the internet, it makes more sense to have a condensed set of
meetings in a week with rotating time-schedule as per already existing
regional rotation as per RFC8719.

Is the /purpose/ of IETF meetings something we should address directly
before producing guidelines? The IETF Mission Statement currently is
fairly outcome-oriented (i.e. could be construed as prioritizing
focussed work over cross-pollination).'

best regards,

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Amelia Andersdotter
IETF SHMOO WG Co-Chair
https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/shmoo/about/

Director of Strategic Initiatives, CENTR
www.centr.org
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