Re: WG meeting structure

[Kyle Rose <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:00 PM Bob Hinden <[e-mail]> 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.
>

I think this can be dealt with by the WG chairs. In some WGs, there will be
a core group of people who need to be at the table for the entire
discussion, while in others it will change entirely from topic to topic.
Asking people who are not involved in a particular discussion to move to
the audience seems reasonable.

Need a lot of microphones, a new who get to speak next protocol, and
> probably waste a lot of time passing the microphones around.
>

Technical issues aside (more mics?), WG chairs already have pretty wide
latitude to run the meetings in the way they feel is most appropriate. This
includes how to recognize speakers. It seems some experiments are in order.
FWIW, I attended the QUIC session in Berlin (?) where this U shape was
employed, and I thought it worked quite well.

Kyle