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Re: WG meeting structure

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Fri, 17 May 2019 14:14 UTC

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Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 09:14:44 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Loa Andersson <loa@pi.nu>
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Subject: Re: WG meeting structure
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 08:37:49PM +0800, Loa Andersson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I agree with most of what what Fred says, drawing on experience from
> other wg's.
> 
> I'm a bit nervous when this type discussions pops up. As long they are
> discussions on "good ideas we tried, and the results we had", I think it
> is fine.
> 
> When they slide away to instruct wg chairs what they should do, I'm
> very concerned.
> 
> I'm convinced that when it comes to IETF wg's we don't have and will
> never have a seating arrangement that fit all wg's, nor fit a single
> working group for all of its life time.
> 
> If there are experiments necessary, let the wg chairs do the experiments
> and the evaluation of the experiments.

There's a bit of a threshold problem, in that the logistics of the chair
setup means we need some critical mass of WGs to agree to run the same
experiment in the same meeting cycle in order for any of them to happen.
But that shouldn't have to take much else away from the WG chairs' control
over how to run the WG.

-Ben

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