At 19:29 21/12/2000 -0600, Pete Resnick wrote:
>I was talking about agenda items determined pre-meeting. And I do think in
>that sense Dave is dead wrong: Presentations should *never* be such an
>agenda item: No I-D editor should ever have the need to make up a
>PowerPoint slide show. If something needs to be spoken about, it needs to
>be spoken about. If something needs to be written down, it can be sent to
>the list. If the draft is so wildly unclear in total, that can and should
>be dealt with on the list; otherwise it's an indication that maybe the
>editor is not up to the task. In any event, anything that requires a
>series of slides is (IMNSHO) by definition a tutorial presentation, and I
>again defy Dave to give me one example where such a presentation is a good
>idea.
Two presentations at the IMPP meeting on Friday come to mind:
- My presentation (ok, I am biased) on gateways and security; this was not
I-D material, and was in fact easier to do in PPT than ASCII. (shudder!)
- Derek Atkins' presentation of an apparent consensus possibility that had
jelled as late as the night before.
Sometimes presentations are good. If they leave plenty of time to talk
about them.
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