Re: Agenda for Atlanta

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 08:20 America/Montreal, Iljitsch van 
> Beijnum wrote:
> 
> > There is one thing I'm not entirely clear on about the IETF meetings.
> > Are the wg sessions usually only/mostly populated by the same people
> > that are on the wg mailinglist, or do these sessions draw a wider
> > public?
> 
> Generally a subset of the mailing list attends a given WG meeting,
> for reasons of cost and calendar complexity.  They generally do not
> draw a wider audience.

Disagree: a wider audience stumbles in just because there was nothing else
interesting going on.  People interested and fiddling with IPv6 stumble in
because, well, they've dealt with IPv6 and want to see what's going on,
etc.etc.

As for those people active on the list or active doing the work, fewer
attend, yes.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords