Re: No DELTA-V Meeting at Adelaide

From: Geoffrey M. Clemm (geoffrey.clemm@rational.com)
Date: Wed, Feb 09 2000

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    Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:55:28 -0500
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    From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Subject: Re: No DELTA-V Meeting at Adelaide
    
    
       From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
    
       > We have decided not to hold a DELTA-V meeting at Adelaide because of
       > travel expense and the small number of people who could attend.
    
       From <paf@swip.net> on 02/07/2000 05:30:58 PM
    
       I am _VERY_ concerned about this view on the work in the IETF which is an
       international effort. It is not more expensive for you going to Australia
       than for Australians going to your meeting in the US.
    
       I am _NOT_ happy with this, and have to bring this to the immediate
       attention to the IESG.
    
    The DeltaV effort is certainly an international effort (Budi Surjanto,
    James J. Hunt, and Edgar.Schwarz are all active participants).  I
    personally try to attend all of the IETF meetings, but I'm not sure I
    see the point of scheduling a particular working group session if none
    of the members of the working group (as indicated by participation in
    the mailing list) will be in attendance.
    
    My experience has been that anyone who has read the proposed protocol
    carefully (essential in the "design phase" of the protocol) has
    contributed to the mailing list, and that there is very little you can
    do in a meeting when only a couple of people are familiar with the
    proposed protocol.  (I've been to such sessions, and it is not an
    experience I wish to repeat).  In contrast, the Washington meeting had
    a significant number of active DeltaV members in attendance, and those
    Deltav meetings were very productive.
    
    Just for interests sake, how many people on this mailing list that are
    attending the Adelaide meeting would actively participate in a working
    session on the versioning protocol there?
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff