On 7/10/13 1:41 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > On 07/10/2013 02:50 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote: >> The IETF values cross area interaction at IETF meeting and attendees >> have always been encouraged to attend for the week. Allowing one day >> passes is a recent phenomenon to which some people, including myself, >> are on balance opposed. > > I'm also of the opinion that the one-day passes were a bad idea. We have > too little cross-group and cross-area participation, too many groups > working at cross-purposes, and too little attention paid to the > implications of any one new protocol on the Internet architecture. We > have become very overspecialized and we need to see what we can do to > discourage this trend.
I can spend a week at an IETF meeting and never participate in a session outside a given area. Day passes have nothing to do with it. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
