> I think we need to look to the future where
> three thousand participants are going to offer up
> their ideas and we need to be able to take advantage
> of those resources without stuff "getting dropped"
> simply because of the meeting space/format.
Perhaps. But in a forum with three thousand participants, I
doubt that either space or bandwidth are the primary barriers
to producing a consensus around sound technical solutions.
In other words, even assuming we had the space/bandwidth to
accomodate them all, three thousand people is far too many for
a single group discussion. We'd need to adopt drastically different
methods for running a working group and for making decisions.
I also suspect it's much easier for thirty people to come up with a
good technical solution, than for three thousand or even three hundred,
even if the clue density remains the same for each case.
Keith
