Re: Feedback from IETF 120 Vancouver post-meeting survey

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Wes,

> On Sep 3, 2024, at 6:09 AM, Wes Hardaker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
>> That's not my proposal.  We are, as Kyle noted, adults.  But in some
>> cases it may also be helpful to facilitate the discussion a little
>> better, particularly with long mic lines.
> 
> Things used to be a bit better when we had active jabber scribes that
> were watching the chat.  Chairs (myself included) have slipped away from
> this responsibility, and it may be time to attract a specific person to
> monitor the chat.  I know that some have said the chairs should be doing
> this, but it is often hard to watch carefully as a chair while
> simultaneously monitoring the room, the virtual room, the queue, the
> agenda, the clock, the etc. 
> 

I have also found it hard to monitor the chat and all of the other things you mention when chairing.   When I do, sometimes it is on topic, sometimes it’s still discussing the previous presentation, sometimes it’s on some tangent.   I like the idea of having someone in the room monitoring it and bringing issues to the room.   Or perhaps better, asking people to bring their issue to the meeting queue.

I think there is some validity to Elliot’s point that it can become its own meeting.   Much like we sometimes see on w.g. mailing lists where discussion stop discussing the document, and is about the email comments themselves.   It easier to read the thread, than the document :-(    

Bob