Subject: RE: [Isms] draft meeting agenda for Dallas

From: "McDonald, Ira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:00:59 -0800

Juergen Quittek wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
> 
> --On 3/13/06 12:08 PM -0500 David B Harrington wrote:
> 
> > Hi Juergen,
> >
> > [snip]
> > 
> > The editing meeting at IETF64 went down a specific tangent/rathole
> > (notifications and callback) and we never reached any clear 
> > decisions
> > or did any editing. The interim became an education meeting, and it
> > failed to achieve clear decisions for forward progress or 
> > provide any
> > specific text for the documents. If we are going to have another
> > editing meeting, can we do some actual editing of the 
> > documents? Let's
> > address the ratholes on the mailing list and during the formal
> > session, and avoid lots of review of documents people should have
> > already read.
> 
> Agreed.
> 

I suggest you try running your IETF65 meeting with two leaders:

(a) Moderator leading technical discussion; and
(b) Facilitator managing the flow of the meeting.

The Facilitator should politely stop rathole topics and turn them 
quickly into offline action items for one or more participants
(in subsequent email notes).  The Facilitator should also be the
timekeeper who stops on-agenda topics when they run over.

We plan to use this model at our upcoming OSDL Printing Summit with
50 participants (a comparable-sized group of techies?).

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked]

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