Re: [Pesci-discuss] Face-to-face meetings (was: Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria)

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 08:30:03AM +1000, Geoff Huston allegedly wrote:
> It does make one wonder, as Spencer already has, what the real role and 
> value is of the face-to-face meetings. I suspect that the role of the IETF 
> meetings from the perspective of a WG is becoming more of "reporting  to a 
> broader audience"  rather than "working in a broader context". 

My theory up to now was that most of the work is and should be done
outside of the big meetings.  The big meetings are for reaching
agreemetns (and as you say, cross-fertilization).  However, it may be
that the issues many WGs are dealing with are simply too big to get
resolution in 2 meeting slots, and too deep to get resolution by email
or by design teams.  How can we have the focus of the interims and
still have the cross-fertilization?

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