Melinda,
My impression is that you have not seen a "tight agenda" yet.
I'm aware that you have attended a number of IETF meetings. I've seen
your name a
time or two. I have a fairly large crate full of T-shirts myself (I have been
to ~35 IETF meetings,
starting in 1996).
Clearly you and I do not attend very many of the same WG meetings.
That's okay with
me and a big part of why the saying "you mileage may vary" comes up as often as
it does in the
IETF.
I've been to many WG meetings where the Chairs have said right up front
that they
have a very full Agenda and will decide based on timing whether they will allow
questions to
be asked, at all. I've also been to meetings where some of the presentations
took longer than
the time the chairs allocated for them, so the line was again cut-off almost
immediately.
Again, usually, if there is a time constraint, the chairs will only ask
about questions if
there is already a line. And even then, they may tell the folks in line to
take it to the list.
I am happy to agree that your experience may be different, as long as
you're happy
to agree that other folks experience may be different from you own.
I also think this is a rather silly topic to be burning bandwidth on,
so let's agree to
disagree and drop it...
--
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Melinda Shore [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:12 AM
To: Eric Gray
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [nvo3] remote participation for NVO3 interim meeting
Importance: High
On 8/24/12 6:55 AM, Eric Gray wrote:
> Usually, if the agenda is tight, you need to be headed for the
> microphone before a presenter is done, or the Chairs will move immediately on
> to the next presentation.
"Usually?" Really? That hasn't been my experience. The only thing that's
been a concern in the past has been that if the line gets long it gets closed.
What I've seen more often (I think) is that the chair asks whether or not there
are any more questions before moving on to the next agenda item.
> If you have attended very many IETF WG meetings,
One or two.
> If you are the "jabber" scribe,
A time or ten.
Sorry, I think that people believe the objections they're raising are true, but
while these things happen they're not usual. And when they happen they're the
result of poor chairing rather than something inherent in the medium.
Melinda
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