I'm very much for making this work in some ways, and we should experiment. I also think it important that the remote hubs include people who are not newbies. For financial reasons, I don't make IETF100, but I would be happy to travel within Ottawa (i.e. stay at a hotel, even though I live here), to Montreal or Toronto, or perhaps even Boston. Although, for the purposes of dealing with VISA issues, "enhancing" Boston might be a mistake.
Some comments inline: Paul Kyzivat <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not saying that time zone differences are a blocker for remote > participation. I have indeed gotten up in the middle of the night to > join in. > But the time zone differences are a severe impediment to remote > participation I have done many meetings in my PJs :-) Ottawa->Europe is relatively easy, as the meetings start at 3am-ish, and I just have to go to bed early and get up early. The meetings are over by 2pm local, which means that as far as my child and wife are concerned, means they see *more* of me. For Ottawa->Asia, it's a complete ~12h time reversal, and it's rather difficult to explain to child that I'm asleep. And the house isn't quiet enough to sleep, etc. So going someplace would be a great thing. > meetings to attend. Doing so at a hub would be very difficult unless > you had place to stay adjacent to the hub. If that is a hotel, it will > make the cost of participation significant. Yes, that's true, but: 1) we don't need a 5-star $250USD/night hotel. 2) we don't need to accomodate 1000 people and food, etc. 3) the meeting rooms (I like having 8!) could be rather small, and could be cobbled together from many company meeting spaces, assuming they are willing to deal with the time zone challenge to their physical security. > The only way I can see this working would be for the IETF to > simultaneously host an IETF meeting in multiple locations - perhaps one > per continent. But I don't see much advantage to that. I actually think this is a good experiment to try, and I'm willing to participate in such an experiment. -- Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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