Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:53:00 -0500
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| I assume that by "Presentations", you mean "tutorial presentations",
| and not "Gee George, your proposal on the mailing list looks novel
| and interesting, but we're not getting it, could you take 10 mins
| in the WG meeting and explain it more fully" presentations?
I suspect that Pete actually meant both, while often both are inappropriate
there are times when the second form are useful to have. Perhaps not when
just one or two people make that request - that's better handled by a
private chat outside the WG meeting, but when many people in a WG have
read the proposal (this almost only ever happens with new proposals), and
yet still fail to understand it, then it can sometimes be useful to have its
proponent(s) spend a little time explaining the idea in a forum where they
can be interrupted when what they're saying isn't clear (that's an important
part of actually getting the understanding - simply going back and telling
them "we don't understand the draft, rewrite it" doesn't usually help).
So sometimes, though only very occasionally, presentations are useful.
kre
