IESG Secretary wrote: > This statement provides IESG guidance on interim IETF Working Group > meetings, conference calls, and jabber sessions.
Good note. > Historically the work of the IETF has been conducted over mailing lists. > This practice ensures the widest possible involvement in the working > group process. This practice is not as efficient in terms of producing > specifications as extended face-to-face meetings but is much more > inclusive. In attending meetings for a group that does all its work in extended face-to-face discussions, I discovered another benefit of the mailing-list orientation of the IETF: deliberation. When a reliance on face-to-face meetings is coupled with any sort of timely deadline, the group is forced to make potentially precipitous decisions. When discussion and decision-making can extend over the longer period of email discussion, the decision-making has much more opportunity to consider implications and recover from problematic choices. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
