Re: Slightly updated announcement for interim meeting

On 24-mei-04, at 15:17, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> The room will hold about 100 people; at the moment we do not plan
> on requiring formal advance registration. The informal count of
> attendees was about 26 as of May 24.

> 3. Review "Things to think about" draft (Eliot Lear, 45 min.)
> 4. Review threats draft(s) if updated (leader(s) TBD, 45 min.)
> 5. Review + discuss future Architecture draft (Geoff Huston
>    by phone, co-chairs, 2 hours)
> 6. Open discussion on the impact of various categories of solutions
>    (co-chairs, 1 hour)

I would like to repeat my suggestion that the things to think about and 
threats stuff be moved to the end of the meeting, as going in such 
detail before even discussing the architecture is likely to waste time 
on details that will turn out to be moot later.

Also, I was wondering if it were possible to allow those who are so 
inclined to make a sort of "opening statement" or have something 
similar to what the IAB did a few IETF meetings ago. I think we can 
assume that people who take the time to attend this interim meeting and 
have a point to make, will make sure they get to make this point, so 
even though this would technically eat up a lot of time (even at 5 
minutes a pop, if many people want to do this), in reality it wouldn't 
make a big difference. I think this would help focus on the important 
issues and avoid the common syndrome where during the discussions every 
speaker brings up something different from the previous one.

About the jabber thing: wouldn't it be more useful to see if we can 
stream the audio? That way there is no need for a volunteer to break 
any typing records and jabber remains available as an out of band 
channel. (Do we have a jabber conference server, btw?)