Re: WG meeting structure

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 15 May 2019 17:21 UTC

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STARK, BARBARA H <bs7652@att.com> wrote:
    >> So, why do we keep trying to do this? It doesn't work any better with the
    >> speakers at the front.  That is, we don't resolve issues any faster.
    >> (Sure, the audio might be better)

    > Maybe the experiment should be to have a small room with a table/U
    > where only active list-participants are allowed. Stream the Meetecho
    > from this to a large room, which now becomes a remote site. There can
    > be a mic in the large room for people who want to talk to the small
    > room. And a moderator/jabber scribe in the large room (who don't need
    > to be a chair or active participant) to manage the large room mic and
    > identify who is at the mic.

Brilliant!

This also simplies room allocation, since all the "big" rooms can be setup in
presentation-style, and the small room can be opted in by
FirstComeFirstServed of WG chairs....

(This Thread has been giving me flashbacks of the "VPN BOF" sometime around
1999, where 1500 tourists tried to get into a 400 person room...)

    > The acoustics of a small room will be much better than a table in a big room.

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