Re: Mutli6 meeting in Vienna

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Kurt;

> >>> Are you saying that you have tried to request 3 slots and denied by
> >>> IESG?
> >>>
> >>> Or, are you just saying you are not so sure?
> >>
> >> I am saying that I do not think it would be useful for us to request
> >> three slots. I don't think that will move us forward.
> >
> > You mean you shall not have time.
> >
> > I don't think it a good management of WG.

> I am worried that we would spend large amount of time in our first 
> meeting for a long time going through proposals, without a clear 
> picture of where this would lead us.

It is a job of chairs to assign appropriate amount of time for
each presentation.

It is a job of chairs to reserve appropriate amount of time for
the wrap up discussion.

> From what I can see there are very 
> few proposals that have any broader support.

That's why we need presentations and discussions.

We shouldn't expect Pekka can draw a clear picture to lead us.

> > Having presentation by Pekka, you will get view of Pekka, but nothing
> > more than that, which is not so productive.
> 
> Well, I was not going to ask him to present his views of the proposals. 
> Rather a summary of the classes of solutions we see. Without any 
> comments on the solutions as such. That is also what I understood that 
> he was willing to do.

It's Pekka's view of classification.

> > Discussion on solution classes, if any, should be more abstact
> > and should not be based on specific proposals.
> >
> > Overview on specific proposals is a different topic.
> >
> 
> That is why I wanted this split in to parts. One to give the overview 
> (abstracts if you want) of the classes of solutions, one part on the 
> proposals that appears to have the widest support.

You are saying to select proposals that appears to have the widest
support based on the Pekka's view of classification.

That's not fair.

Worse, a good class can contain poor solutions that classes
and solutions are rather orthogonal.


							Masataka Ohta