Re: [sidr] additional interim meetings

["George, Wes" <[e-mail]>]

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> Uijterwaal
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [sidr] additional interim meetings
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> The IETF has a limited number of slots (150 or so) and about as many working
> groups.  That gives about 1 slot to each WG, a second slot is only granted
> after
> all requests for a 1st slot have been met.  That makes it hard to plan for
> multiple slots during the week, as it isn't clear that the 2nd slot will
> be available.
>
[WEG] One point to make here... I think you're overselling the difficulty of requesting and receiving additional slots when they are all requested at the same time, rather than retroactively as was done this time. Yes by strict math you're correct, but rarely do all of the WGs meet. Once the agenda is set, you know how many sessions you have, it's not like the add'l sessions are scheduled after the agenda is set. V6ops has consistently had 2 sessions per IETF, and was up to 3 sessions in one IETF before a number of folks told the chairs that this was excessive and that we needed to better manage what was actually getting agenda time. So it can be done.

Really, the problem with multiple sessions is that they are opposite 7 other WG meetings no matter what their timeslot, meaning that it becomes increasingly difficult to deconflict time for those who need to attend.

Wes George

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