Re: reception not useful for WG chairs

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Mon, 06 May 2019 14:58 UTC

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Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 09:57:57 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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Subject: Re: reception not useful for WG chairs
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On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 10:49:22AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> I'm hearing that the Sunday Reception is inadequate for WG chairs to
> catch up with Area Directors, and that many people would like some structured
> time in which to be able to do that.
> 
> Personally, I've found the reception to be very much useless for awhile.
> Long food lines, and then food which I don't really like.  I've been skipping
> it, or showing up at the very end just to say hi.
> And now we schedule the HotRFC more or less on top of the end of the
> reception.

IIRC we got some explicit feedback that overlapping HotRFC with the tail
end of the reception was a feature.

-Ben