Re: WG meeting structure

["Martin Thomson" <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, May 15, 2019, at 03:00, Bob Hinden wrote:
> I think the problem is who gets to sit at the table.  It’s not always 
> the same people who want to speak on a specific agenda item.   So I 
> don’t think this will work at all for a w.g. meeting like 6man with 
> over a hundred people in the room and a range of topics.  It might 
> possibly for a smaller w.g.  I think it will also discourage people in 
> the “X” seats from speaking.
> 
> As others have said, this is also going to be a big problem for remote 
> participation.   Need a lot of microphones, a new who get to speak next 
> protocol, and probably waste a lot of time passing the microphones 
> around.

It might pay to retrieve the feedback that was provided on the experiment.  The IESG did collect feedback.  My sense was that this was widely consider to have not worked, mostly for the reasons that Bob describes.  This layout worked (and works) really well for interim meetings where there are fewer attendees, but it didn't work for the larger meetings.