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Re: Slightly updated announcement for interim meeting

On 24-mei-04, at 15:17, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

The room will hold about 100 people; at the moment we do not plan
on requiring formal advance registration. The informal count of
attendees was about 26 as of May 24.


3. Review "Things to think about" draft (Eliot Lear, 45 min.)
4. Review threats draft(s) if updated (leader(s) TBD, 45 min.)
5. Review + discuss future Architecture draft (Geoff Huston
   by phone, co-chairs, 2 hours)
6. Open discussion on the impact of various categories of solutions
   (co-chairs, 1 hour)

I would like to repeat my suggestion that the things to think about and threats stuff be moved to the end of the meeting, as going in such detail before even discussing the architecture is likely to waste time on details that will turn out to be moot later.

Also, I was wondering if it were possible to allow those who are so inclined to make a sort of "opening statement" or have something similar to what the IAB did a few IETF meetings ago. I think we can assume that people who take the time to attend this interim meeting and have a point to make, will make sure they get to make this point, so even though this would technically eat up a lot of time (even at 5 minutes a pop, if many people want to do this), in reality it wouldn't make a big difference. I think this would help focus on the important issues and avoid the common syndrome where during the discussions every speaker brings up something different from the previous one.

About the jabber thing: wouldn't it be more useful to see if we can stream the audio? That way there is no need for a volunteer to break any typing records and jabber remains available as an out of band channel. (Do we have a jabber conference server, btw?)