2011/7/28 Barry Leiba <barryle...@computer.org> > > You're going to ask attendees to self-identify as tourists and leave > > the room? Today's tourists may well become tomorrow's document > > editors. > ... > > Let's just assign large enough rooms to BoFs and newly-formed WGs > > so that the work can start in earnest. > > I agree. If people are there paying attention, I want them there. > Lots of people don't know whether they're going to commit to doing > work until the end of the BoF, after they've heard all the stuff about > problem statement, work scope, and proposed work items. >
+1. So far I came only to one IETF meeting. At that time I attended (as a "tourist," as you would call it) to a couple of BoF. My motivation for attending was that the BoF title sounded close enough to my interests and I wanted to know something more about it. I could not say if I was willing to be committed in contributing in the next-to-be WG by the title (and maybe a brief abstract) only. Keep also in mind that, although I participate as an individual, I have an employer and I am not entirely free to decide if contributing in some WG or not. (If you are curious: it turned out that one BoF was fairly orthogonal to my interests, while the other one was sufficiently close so that I subscribed to the WG ML and spread the word with few of my colleagues that are more interested in the matter). Riccardo
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