Re: [Manycouches] many-fine-dinners --- a view on how to organize virtual meetings

[Martin Duke <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:37 PM Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
>     > 5. *More interim meetings*: the near-universal interim start time of
> ~1500
>     > UTC makes a lot of inherently discriminatory assumptions about what
> time
>     > zones have the most important contributors and what hours are
> optimal for
>     > any particular time zone. If we were to have regular virtual IETFs
> without
>     > a canceled location as a timebase, using a random start time would be
>     > better than optimizing for the Atlantic. That said, sometimes WGs
> enter a
>     > phase where they're in the weeds, tourists are not that helpful, and
> indeed
>     > entirely theoretical anyway. For these groups, interims are currently
>     > available but I don't think we should be in the business of actively
>     > encouraging interims for the reasons above.
>
> I don't really understand this paragraph at all.
>

Alright, I'll try again.

I think you're arguing for fewer meetings in IETF week and more interims.

Interims tend to be scheduled at a time most convenient for the key
participants, which discourages tourism and marginalizes non-key
participants.

There's a time when that's OK, and the interim procedures exist for this
reason.

However, I think the balance today between interim and non-interim is about
right.