Re: Slightly updated announcement for interim meeting

On 26-mei-04, at 11:04, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

>>> 3. Review "Things to think about" draft (Eliot Lear, 45 min.)
>>> 4. Review threats draft(s) if updated (leader(s) TBD, 45 min.)

>> 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.

> My view is that these are "business as usual" items that can be done 
> fairly
> quickly,

Hm, 1.5 hours isn't all THAT quickly...

> but there is a high chance they would be pushed off the agenda
> if left to the end.

That's better than pushing the discussion off the agenda. As there are 
only three drafts on the agenda and no other IETF stuff going on, I 
think it's reasonable to assume everyone has read the drafts anyway...

>> 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.

> This is an approach to starting the discussion of the architecture. We 
> do
> need some structure in that discussion, and this might be a good way to
> help us focus. So my idea would be to do this after Geoff presents.

Ok.

>> 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?)

> I am told the IETF jabber server is always up.

Excellent.

> Frankly I have no confidence
> that we will get enough reliable throughput from an arbitrary hotel to
> run streaming,

Sounds like a challenge.  :-)

> whereas jabber has a good chance of working even if the
> network is spotty. So I think we should go for jabber anyway. If anyone
> volunteers to run audio streaming, so much the better.

I'll see what I can do. Will we be using microphones?

> (co-chair hat on again)

> We are still looking for a jabber scribe!

I suppose I can do some of this, but not the entire day...