[rgchairs] Re: 63rd IETF Agenda - DRAFT

Chan-Wah Ng <chanwah.ng@sg.panasonic.com> Wed, 13 July 2005 17:16 UTC

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Subject: [rgchairs] Re: 63rd IETF Agenda - DRAFT
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On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:48 +0900, Thierry Ernst wrote:
> Actually, this is an excellent idea !
> Thierry
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:00:47 +0200
> Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 2005-7-13, at 3:49 , Thierry Ernst wrote:
> > >
> > > It's notorious that people try to arrange their flight in advance in
> > > order to get cheaper prices, so if we really want people to organize
> > > their trip in a way they consider staying on Friday, we:
> > > 1. must issue a draft agenda earlier (I would say 1 month in  
> > > advance at
> > > the very least
> > > 2. in case of agenda changes, no slot should be move to the  
> > > extremity of
> > > the week
> > > 3. people should get used to stay on Friday
> > >
> > > The problem for 3 is that some WGs have to play the role of
> > > guinea-pig and this is not acceptable. So, 1 and 2 may be the 1st
> > > category's requirement. May be one eaay way is for some WGs to
> > > volunteer for a Friday BOF ahead of time, with the information
> > > spread on the relevant mailing lists.
> > >
> > > A side note, I think it's a bad idea to schedule a BOF on Friday  
> > > because
> > > many people are not aware of the content of a BOF before they
> > > attend; also BOF need to span a larger audience.
> > 
> > If you want to achieve (3), which is the right thing to do IMO, then  
> > let's make Friday "BOF day" in Vancouver, announce it well before and 
> > schedule all BOFs then. (Or the IETF after Vancouver if that's too  
> > soon.)
> > 

But then again, there may be the problem of two closely related BoFs
needs to be at different time slots ...

/rgds
/cwng

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