Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technicalplenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread George Michaelson
I wish to add a specific point to this. I also raised a proposal for over-weekend meetings a few years back. I feel that the attendees to US IETF, which have often predominated, but in the general sense the attendees to IETF who fly for more than 12h to get there, suffer a material

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technicalplenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-10 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com To: Stanislav Shalunov shalu...@bittorrent.com; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technicalplenary the last IETF session, like it was before ... Also keep in mind that, as

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technicalplenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 09:59 -0800 Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com wrote: ... rant I'm s tired of this line of argumentation. Sunday is part of the (religious as well as secular) weekend for some cultures, too. We've dealt with (or ignored) this reality for

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technicalplenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-10 Thread Stanislav Shalunov
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:14 PM, John C Klensin wrote: My much greater concern, as I tried to make clear, is where we draw the line about expanding meetings. Maybe the right answer is that we stop after the Thursday evening plenary. Maybe before noon on Friday. Maybe the end of the day Friday.