Re: last call - Draft Agenda - 56th IETF

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>>>> So how about switching Seamboy and either IPR or RDDP on Monday morning?
>>>> This would put Seamboy on Monday and either IPR or RDDP at 13:00 on
>>>> Thurs.?
>>>> Any objections?
>>> Yes. We are likely to have a hundred or more tourists at IPR.
>>> Moving the meeting at the last minute might be tempting, but would not
>>> be  an optimal long-term strategy.
>> let me be sure i understand.  because a bunch of lawyers and tourists
>> may be interested in trying to stack a wg meeting, it should be treated
>> specially, and have scheduling privileges that normal wgs do not?
> When considering a working group that forms part of the IETF's basic 
> structure for making standards, and which at the moment has a large "public 
> interface", and where we've encouraged people who are part of the Internet 
> community but not normally part of the IETF community to show up, and there 
> is a highly controversial issue on the table for which we want to make sure 
> people can plan ahead on being there if they think they can/should 
> contribute - yes, that group should have priority in the scheduling.

i guess your being better at making such layer nine decisions is
why you get the big bucks :-)

randy